Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview : and Other Conversations - Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview

and Other Conversations

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

Paperback | 14 February 2019

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When she began writing in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin was as much of a literary outsider as one can be- she was a woman writing in a landscape dominated by men, she wrote genre at a time where it was dismissed as non-literary, and she lived out West, far from fashionable east coast literary circles. The interviews collected here--covering everything from her Berkeley childhood to her process of world-building; from her earliest experiments with genre to envisioning the end of capitalism--highlight that unique perspective, which conjured some of the most prescient and lasting books in modern literature.

"Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words."
-Ursula K. Le Guin

When she began writing in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin was as much of a literary outsider as one can be- a woman writing in a landscape dominated by men, a science fiction and fantasy author in an era that dismissed "genre" literature as unserious, and a westerner living far from fashionable East Coast publishing circles. The interviews collected here-spanning a remarkable forty years of productivity, and covering everything from her Berkeley childhood to Le Guin envisioning the end of capitalism-highlight that unique perspective, which conjured some of the most prescient and lasting books in modern literature.
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"I'll miss her. Literature will miss her. There's no one like her." --Zadie Smith

"She was one of the giants. A gifted storyteller, dedicated to her art, she influenced a whole generation of writers who came after her, including me." --George R. R. Martin

"We can't call Ursula K. Le Guin back from the land of the unchanging stars, but happily she left us her multifaceted work, her hard-earned wisdom and her fundamental optimism. Her sane, smart, crafty, and lyrical voice is more necessary now than ever." --Margaret Atwood

"I learn more from her books at every stage of life than from any other writer: she bears rereading well." --Neil Gaiman

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