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The wave in the mind : talks and essays on the writer, the reader, and the imagination
- Title
- The wave in the mind : talks and essays on the writer, the reader, and the imagination / Ursula K. Le Guin.
- Author
- Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018.
- Publication
- Boston : Shambhala ; New York : Distributed in the United States by Random House, 2004.
- Supplementary Content
- Publisher description
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 06-1238 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- x, 304 p.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Contents
- Personal matters -- Introducing myself -- Being taken for granite -- Indian uncles -- My libraries -- My island -- On the frontier -- Readings -- All happy families -- Things not actually present: On the book of fantasy and J.L. Borges -- Reading young, reading old: Mark Twain's diaries of Adam and Eve -- Thinking about Cordwainer Smith -- Strews-rhythm in poetry and prose -- Rhythmic pattern in The Lord of the rings -- The wilderness within: The sleeping beauty and "the poacher" -- Off the page: loud cows: a talk and a poem about reading aloud -- Discussions and opinions -- Fact and/or/plus fiction -- Award and gender -- On genetic determinism -- About feet -- Dogs, cars, and dancers: thoughts about beauty -- Collectors, rhymesters, and drummers -- Telling is listening -- The operating instructions -- "A war without end" -- On writing -- A matter of trust -- The writer and the character -- Unquestioned assumptions -- Prides: an essay on writing workshops -- The question I get asked most often -- Old body not writing -- The writer on, and at, her work.
- Call Number
- JFE 06-1238
- ISBN
- 1590300068 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2003012931
- OCLC
- 52418183
- Author
- Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018.
- Title
- The wave in the mind : talks and essays on the writer, the reader, and the imagination / Ursula K. Le Guin.
- Imprint
- Boston : Shambhala ; New York : Distributed in the United States by Random House, 2004.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 06-1238