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Words are my matter : writings about life and books, 2000-2016 with a journal of a writer's week
- Title
- Words are my matter : writings about life and books, 2000-2016 with a journal of a writer's week / Ursula K. Le Guin.
- Author
- Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018
- Publication
- Easthampton, MA : Small Beer Press, [2016]
- ©2016
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Details
- Description
- iv, 316 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- This collection of Ursula K. Le Guin's recent talks, essays, introductions is the best manual we have for exploring the worlds explored in recent fiction; the most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life.
- Uniform Title
- Works. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Works.
- Subject
- American essays
- Genre/Form
- Essays.
- Book reviews.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Foreword -- Talks, essays, and occasional pieces. The operating instructions ; What it was like ; Genre: a word only a Frenchman could love ; "Things not actually present" ; A response, by ansible, from Tau Ceti ; The beast in the book ; Inventing languages ; How to read a poem: "Gray goose and gander" ; On David Hensel's submission to the Royal Academy of Art ; On serious literature ; Teasing myself out of thought ; Living in a work of art ; Staying awake ; Great nature's second course ; What women know ; Disappearing grandmothers ; Learning to write science fiction from Virginia Woolf ; The death of the book ; Le Guin's hypothesis ; Making up stories ; Freedom -- Book introductions and notes on writers. A very good American novel: H. L. Davis's Honey in the Horn ; Philip K. Dick: The Man in the High Castle ; Huxley's bad trip ; Stanislaw Lem: Solaris ; George MacDonald: The Princess and the Goblin ; The wild winds of possibility: Vonda McIntyre's Dreamsnake ; Getting it right: Charles L. McNichols's Crazy Weather ; On Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago ; Examples of dignity: thoughts on the works of José Saramago ; Arkady and Boris Strugatsky: Roadside Picnic ; Jack Vance: The Languages of Pao ; H. G. Wells: The First Men in the Moon ; H. G. Wells: The Time Machine ; Wells's worlds -- Book reviews. Margaret Atwood: Moral Disorder ; Margaret Atwood: The Year of the Flood ; Margaret Atwood: Stone Mattress ; J. G. Ballard: Kingdom Come ; Roberto Bolaño: Monsieur Pain ; T. C. Boyle: When the Killing's Done ; Geraldine Brooks: People of the Book ; Italo Calvino: The Complete Cosmicomics ; Margaret Drabble: The Sea Lady ; Carol Emshwiller: Ledoyt ; Alan Garner: Boneland ; Kent Haruf: Benediction ; Kent Haruf: Our Souls at Night ; Tove Jansson: The True Deceiver ; Barbara Kingsolver: Flight Behavior ; Chang-Rae Lee: On Such a Full Sea ; Doris Lessing: The Cleft ; Donna Leon: Suffer the Little Children ; Yann Martel: The High Mountains of Portugal ; China Miéville: Embassytown ; China Miéville: Three Moments of an Explosion ; David Mitchell: The Bone Clocks ; Jan Morris: Hav ; Julie Otsuka: The Buddha in the Attic ; Salman Rushdie: The Enchantress of Florence ; Salman Rushdie: Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights ; José Saramago: Raised from the Ground ; José Saramago: Skylight ; Sylvia Townsend Warner: Dorset Stories ; Jo Walton: Among Others ; Jeanette Winterson: The Stone Gods ; Stefan Zweig: The Post Office Girl -- The Hope of Rabbits: A Journal of a Writer's Week.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-1156
- ISBN
- 9781618731340
- 1618731343
- LCCN
- 2016029895
- 40026553198
- OCLC
- 954719930
- Author
- Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018, author.
- Title
- Words are my matter : writings about life and books, 2000-2016 with a journal of a writer's week / Ursula K. Le Guin.
- Publisher
- Easthampton, MA : Small Beer Press, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929- author. Words are my matter First edition. Easthampton, MA : Small Beer Press, 2016 9781618731210 (DLC) 2016035410
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40026553198
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-1156