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		Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018

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		Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929- -- Essays.
		Aging -- Essays.
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		Literature -- Essays.
		Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Essays.
		United States -- Civilization -- 21st century -- Essays.

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No time to spare : thinking about what matters / Ursula K. Le Guin ; introduction by Karen Joy Fowler.

by Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.

Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929- -- Essays.

Aging -- Essays.

Old age -- Essays.

Literature -- Essays.

Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Essays.

United States -- Civilization -- 21st century -- Essays.

9781328507976 (pbk.)

9781328661593 (hc.)

215 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.

Part one: Going over eighty. In your spare time ; The sissy strikes back ; The diminished thing ; Catching up, ha ha -- The Annals of Pard. Choosing a cat ; Chosen by a cat -- Part two: The lit biz. Would you please fucking stop? ; Readers' questions ; Kids' letters ; Having my cake ; Papa H ; A much-needed literary award ; TGAN and TGOW ; TGAN again ; The narrative gift as a moral conundrum ; It doesn't have to be the way it is ; Utopiyin, utopiyang -- The Annals of Pard. The trouble ; Pard and the time machine -- Part three: Trying to make sense of it. A band of brothers, a stream of sisters ; Exorcists ; Uniforms ; Clinging desperately to a metaphor ; Lying it all away ; The inner child and the nude politician ; A modest proposal: vegempathy ; Belief in belief ; About anger -- The Annals of Pard. An unfinished education ; An unfinished education, continued ; Doggerel for my cat -- Part four: Rewards. The circling stars, the sea surrounding : Philip Glass and John Luther Adams ; Rehearsal ; Someone named Delores ; Without egg ; Notre-Dame de la Faim ; The tree ; The horsies upstairs ; First contact ; The lynx ; Notes from a week at a ranch in the Oregon high desert

"From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, a collection of thoughts - always adroit, often acerbic - on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation. Ursula K. Le Guin has taken readers to imaginary worlds for decades. Now she's in the last great frontier of life, old age, and exploring new literary territory: the blog, a forum where her voice - sharp, witty, as compassionate as it is critical - shines. This book collects the best of Ursula's blog, presenting perfectly crystallized dispatches on what matters to her now, her concerns with this world, and her wonder at it. On the absurdity of denying your age, she says, "If I'm ninety and believe I'm forty-five, I'm headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub." On cultural perceptions of fantasy: "The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is 'escapism' an accusation of? " Her concerns with this world, and her unceasing wonder at it: "How rich we are in knowledge, and in all that lies around us yet to learn. Billionaires, all of us."

Fowler, Karen Joy.

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