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Words are my matter : writings about life and books, 2000-2016 with a journal of a writer's week / Ursula K. Le Guin.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Easthampton, MA : Small Beer Press, 2016Description: 352 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781618731340 (alk. paper)
Uniform titles:
  • Works. Selections
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 818
LOC classification:
  • PS 3562 L521w 2016
Contents:
Table of 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 Work of Jose' 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 Bolan~o: 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 Mie'ville: Embassytown China Mie'ville: 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 Jose' Saramago: Raised from the Ground Jose' 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
Summary: A bright and wide-ranging collection of essays, reviews, talks, and more from one of our best and most thoughtful
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PS 3562 L478t 2002 To kill a mockingbird / PS 3562 L478t 2006 To kill a mockingbird / PS 3562 L521f 2001 The farthest shore / PS 3562 L521w 2016 Words are my matter : writings about life and books, 2000-2016 with a journal of a writer's week / PS 3562 L524l 1995 The last debate / PS 3562 L581e 2010 Elmore Leonard's 10 rules of writing / PS 3562 L626g 1997 Guilt /

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Table of 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 Work of Jose' 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 Bolan~o: 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 Mie'ville: Embassytown China Mie'ville: 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 Jose' Saramago: Raised from the Ground Jose' 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

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