Format:
Book
Author:
Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018 author.
Title:
No time to spare : thinking about what matters / Ursula K. Le Guin ; introduction by Karen Joy Fowler.
Publisher, Date:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2017]
©2017
Description:
xx, 215 pages ; 22 cm
Summary:
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. Ursula's blog, presents perfectly crystallized dispatches on what matters to her now, her concerns with this world, and her wonder at it.
Subjects:
Aging.
Old age.
Literature.
United States -- Civilization.
Genre:
Essays.
Other Author:
Fowler, Karen Joy, writer of introduction.
Other Title:
Essays. Selections
Contents:
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.
LCCN:
2017019808
ISBN:
9781328661593 (hardback)
1328661598 (hardback)
Other Number:
967057463
System Availability:
19
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
3568587
Call Number:
814/.54
Course Reserves:
0
# System items in:
19