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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 on the absurdity of denying your age: "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?"
On breakfast: "Eating an egg from the shell takes not only practice, but resolution, even courage, possibly willingness to commit crime."
Ursula K. Le Guin took readers to imaginary worlds for decades. In the last great frontier of life, old age, she explored a new literary territory: the blog, a forum where she shined. The collected best of Ursula's blog, No Time to Spare presents perfectly crystallized dispatches on what mattered to her late in life, her concerns with the world, and her wonder at it: "How rich we are in knowledge, and in all that lies around us yet to learn. Billionaires, all of us."
"The pages sparkle with lines that make a reader glance up, searching for an available ear with which to share them." — Melissa Febos, New York Times Book Review
"Witty . . . deeply observed." — USA Today
"A book that truly does matter." — Houston Chronicle
Ursula K. Le Guin on the absurdity of denying your age: "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?"
On breakfast: "Eating an egg from the shell takes not only practice, but resolution, even courage, possibly willingness to commit crime."
Ursula K. Le Guin took readers to imaginary worlds for decades. In the last great frontier of life, old age, she explored a new literary territory: the blog, a forum where she shined. The collected best of Ursula's blog, No Time to Spare presents perfectly crystallized dispatches on what mattered to her late in life, her concerns with the world, and her wonder at it: "How rich we are in knowledge, and in all that lies around us yet to learn. Billionaires, all of us."
"The pages sparkle with lines that make a reader glance up, searching for an available ear with which to share them." — Melissa Febos, New York Times Book Review
"Witty . . . deeply observed." — USA Today
"A book that truly does matter." — Houston Chronicle
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Contents
Title Page
Contents
Copyright
Dedication
Introduction
A Note at the Beginning
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
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
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
Rewards
The Circling Stars, the Sea Surrounding: Philip Glass and John Luther Adams
Rehearsal
Someone Named Delores
Without Egg
Nôtre-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
Read More from Ursula K. Le Guin
About the Author
Connect with HMH
Footnotes
First Mariner Books edition 2019
Copyright © 2017 by Ursula K. Le Guin
Introduction copyright © 2017 by Karen Joy Fowler
All rights reserved
For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to [email protected] or to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 3 Park Avenue, 19th Floor, New York, New York 10016.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Note to Readers
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction by Karen Joy Fowler
- A Note at the Beginning
- Part One: Going Over Eighty
- The Annals of Pard
- Part Two: The Lit Biz
- The Annals of Pard
- Part Three: Trying to Make Sense of It
- The Annals of Pard
- Part Four: Rewards
- About the Author
- Selected Books by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Copyright
- About the Publisher