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Title:
No time to spare : thinking about what matters / Ursula K. Le Guin ; introduction by Karen Joy Fowler.
Author:
Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018, author.

Fowler, Karen Joy, writer of introduction.
Publication Information:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.

©2017
Call Number:
PS3562.E42 A6 2017
Abstract:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
9781328661593
Physical Description:
xx, 215 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
General Note:
Includes an illustration by the author on page 154.

Writer of introduction taken from dust jacket.
Contents:
Introduction / by Karen Joy Fowler -- A note at the beginning -- 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.
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Uniform Title:
Essays. Selections
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