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Old on the Website: Chronological List of Changes, Additions, & Announcements

September 2001 - June 2007

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The Oregonian names Lavinia (“brilliant”) one of the Top 10 Northwest Books of 2008.
21 December 2008
The “superior original [PBS] version” of The Lathe of Heaven is the Toledo Blade’s DVD Pick of the Week.
16 December 2008
Best Books of 2008: “A time-traveling Virgil meets the young wife he tosses off in a few lines in The Aeneid, and gasps, ‘I thought you were a blonde.’ Le Guin’s wit and scholarship burnish this beautiful, rewarding and unjustly overlooked novel, for which she retooled her grasp of Latin. A believable immersion into an ancient world and the antique virtues of loyalty and grace.” — Karen Long, Book Editor, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Sunday, December 14, 2008. [complete article]
14 December 2008
Lockerbones/Airbones. Poetry by Ursula K. Le Guin; music by Elinor Armer.
12 December 2008
Ursula’s Next Tale! What will it be?? When will it appear???
9 December 2008
UKL reviews “A Book of Silence” in Literary Review, December 2008.
5 November 2008
Calendar update:
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King Dog: A Screenplay: Now available in electronic form for free at Book View Café
17 November 2008
“The Skin,” a new poem by UKL at Book View Café.
16 November 2008
“Finding my Elegy,” at Poetry Daily. (From Northwest Review, Volume 45, Number 3.)
16 November 2008
The Endeavour Award is auctioning two figurines given by Hayao Miyazaki to Ursula K. LeGuin. eBay auction begins Saturday, November 22, 2008. Check here or at the Endeavour Award website for direct link.
14 November 2008
UKL contributes to “Science fiction special: The future of a genre.” New Scientist, 12 November 2008
12 November 2008
“Better Than Potter,” by Kelly McManus, North Shore Outlook, 10/27/2008, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
27 October 2008
Photos of UKL from Timberland Library. Photos by Jim Culp.
27 October 2008
“Writer’s Almanac” broadcasts birthday greetings to UKL.
22 October 2008
Tumwater Timberland Regional Library Celebrates the work of Ursula K. Le Guin: Raffle and book discussion.
19 October 2008
Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin, by Carl Freedman.
15 October 2008
Authors & Illustrators for Children for Obama list & video
14 October 2008
“Fantasy Tale Trendsetter” — Timberland Reads Together, by Molly Gilmore, The Daily Olympian.
9 October 2008
“Well-known sci-fi, fantasy author to speak at library ,” by Callie White, The Daily World.
8 October 2008
Walking in Cornwall, Poetry by UKL. Reprinted by Crescent Moon
3 October 2008
Locus magazine includes an interview with UKL and “Yesterday’s Tomorrows,” reviews by Graham Sleight of classic Le Guin novels.
3 October 2008
Schedule update: Wild Arts Festival, Portland
30 September 2008
Audiofile of UKL's Lavinia reading at the Corvallis-Benton County Library MP3 [24Mb]
24 September 2008
Q&A with author Ursula K. Le Guin, conducted by Theresa Hogue for the Corvallis Gazette-Times, 12 September 2008.
15 September 2008
Some Books I Liked: Graphic Novels
17 August 2008
“The story of Us and Them” — UKL reviews A to X, by John Berger, at The Guardian.
15 August 2008
Powers is a finalist for the 2008 Endeavour Award.
12 August 2008
Schedule update: UKL at Corvallis-Benton County Library, Friday, 19 September, 2008.
28 July 2008
Always Coming Home a Book of Honor for Potlatch 18.
27 July 2008
“Between the Covers”: Jim Schumock interviews UKL for KBOO radio. Streaming audio.
23 July 2008
9:00 a.m. (PDT) 22 July 2008: “Between the Covers”: Jim Schumock interviews UKL. Listen live at the KBOO website or check here later for a link to the streaming audio.
14 July 2008
Photographers — Have you taken a good picture of Ursula at one of her public events?
12 July 2008
“A Left-Handed Commencement Address,” Mills College 1983
12 July 2008
Site reorganization.
12 July 2008
Interview in Das Science Fiction Jahr 2008, ed. Sascha Mamczak (in German). Heyne Verlag 2008
12 July 2008
Schedule Update: Manzanita Writer’s Series
30 June 2008
Schedule update: NEA “Big Read” (Timberland Library, Olympia, WA); Cannon Beach (OR) Library.
28 June 2008
NEA “Big Read”: A Wizard of Earthsea at Timberland Library (WA). The Daily Olympian. [UKL Calendar info]
28 June 2008
“One man and his dog” — UKL reviews The Lost Dog, by Michelle de Kretser, at The Guardian.
18 June 2008
Schedule Update: Rakestraw Books, 23 June 2008
15 June 2008
“Sing Muse, of the woman unsung” — Review and interview at The Inkwell Review.
15 June 2008
Judith Arcana’s Grace Paley’s Life Stories
12 June 2008
“Pain, Betrayal and Love in Old Russia” — UKL speaks about Doctor Zhivago on “You Must Read This,” All Things Considered, NPR radio, 6 June 2008.
6 June 2008
Choire Sicha
reviews Lavinia for The New York Observer.
6 June 2008
In the Blast Zone: Catastrophe and Renewal on Mount St. Helens, ed. Charles Goodrich, Kathleen Dean Moore, and Frederick J. Swanson, is now available from Powell’s Books. “Le Guin's essay is memorable not only for its eloquence and perspective...” — Jeff Baker, The Oregonian. [complete review] OSU Press, May 2008.
30 May 2008
List of Major Titles — Updated 5/2008 [Printer-friendly PDF, 96Kb]
29 May 2008
“Ursula K. Le Guin, True Original” — Rick Simonson reports on UKL’s Lavinia reading at Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle, for PW.
29 May 2008
Schedule Update
27 May 2008
“...a highly readable, wise, contemporary novel....” Clay Evans reviews Lavinia for Daily Camera, Boulder, CO
26 May 2008
Schedule Update
25 May 2008
“Lavinia is a magnificent book, an intellectual, moral and emotional achievement...” Cecelia Holland reviews Lavinia for Locus [complete review]
20 May 2008
Schedule Update
19 May 2008
The Book Show, ABC Australia, interviews UKL. Transcript and audio. [Offsite link]
12 May 2008
The Ekumen, “a general discussion list for fans of Ursula K. Le Guin.” Associated with Dave Awl's Ekumen website.
12 May 2008
Powers has been nominated for the Locus Award for best Young Adult Book. Winners will be announced at the Locus Awards ceremony in Seattle, Washington, 21 June 2008.
10 May 2008
New reviews for Lavinia: Baltimore Sun, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Philadelphia Inquirer.
9 May 2008
“Le Guin recasts this story with primal vigor and spare but powerful language.” — Barbara McMichael reviews Lavinia for The Olympian Online.

8 May 2008
“the inspired novelist has turned back toward the past — or, to be precise, poetry and myth about the past, because Lavinia is a literary rather than a historical figure — and written one of the finest novels she has ever made....’” — Alan Cheuse reviews Lavinia for the Chicago Tribune.
7 May 2008
Live Wire podcast: Karen Karbo interviews UKL. [MP3 permalink]
6 May 2008
"In simple, stately prose that does no violence to Vergil's work, Le Guin presents the rough, unpretentious dignity of the ancient pagans." Eve Ottenberg reviews Lavinia for The Washington Post.
5 May 2008
"...an absorbing, reverent, magnificent story, one I will be pressing upon my friends all year." Karen Long reviews Lavinia for the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
5 May 2008
NPR’s Jacki Lyden interviews UKL on “All Things Considered,” 26 April 2008. (Audio)
27 April 2008
Video of UKL’s 22 April appearance at Powell’s Bookstore. Lavinia reading, Q&A. Video courtesy of pdxjustice Media Productions.
27 April 2008
Between the Covers: John J. Miller interviews UKL at National Review Online.
24 April 2008
UKL reads from Lavinia in Seattle and Eagle Harbor. Elliott Bay Book Company: April 29; University Book Store: April 30; Eagle Harbor Books (Bainbridge Island): May 1, 2008. See the Calendar for details
23 April 2008
On Tuesday, 22 April 2008, 7:30 p.m., at Powell’s Books (Burnside store), UKL will read from and sign Lavinia. 503-228-4651 for last-minute information.
20 April 2008
LA Times Calendar Online review of Lavinia: “Everywhere Le Guin catches the rhythms of the great epic, echoes them, riffs. In a way, this is a jazzy book, playing in odd syncopation with a massive canonical work.” [more]
20 April 2008
Portland Oregonian review of Lavinia: “Ursula K. Le Guin’s brilliant new novel...” [more]
20 April 2008
New edition of Lathe of Heaven: SFWA Pressbook press release.
19 April 2008
“A simple, beautiful rendition of the Tao Te Ching” — Hermester Barrington reviews UKL’s translation of Lao Tzu. Complete review at powells.com.
15 April 2008
“The real uses of enchantment” — UKL reviews The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie, at Guardian Unlimited, Saturday March 29, 2008.
14 April 2008
An excerpt from Lavinia at the website of The Wall Street Journal [offsite link]
12 April 2008
“A Princess Seeking a Voice,” interview by Cynthia Crossen at The Wall Street Journal. [offsite link]
12 April 2008
“Ursula Le Guin Champions Vergil’s Neglected Heroine.” Yvonne Zipp reviews Lavinia at The Christian Science Monitor [offsite link]
12 April 2008
Live Wire interviews UKL, 7:00 p.m., 12 April 2008. Listen to Oregon Public Broadcasting live, or download the podcast later.
10 April 2008
Read by the Author: “Sun Dance Poem,” from Music and Poetry of the Kesh, Always Coming Home.
23 March 2008
“Persuading Us to Rejoice and Teaching Us How to Praise: Le Guin’s Orsinian Tales,” by James Bittner, SFS #16.
Read by the Author: “Twilight Song,” from Always Coming Home.
16 March 2008
Booklist review of Lavinia: “...compulsively readable... a winning combination of history and mythology....” [more]
15 March 2008
Powers has been named to the New York Public Library’s 2008 Books for the Teen Age list.
13 March 2008
Read by the Author: UKL reads an excerpt from Catwings
9 March 2008
The Catwings books, read by Ursula K. Le Guin, are now available on CD and cassette from Recorded Books, Inc.
9 March 2008
Update: audiobooks and audio downloads
9 March 2008
Lavinia’s Owl
3 March 2008
Tawny Owl photo by Kim Taylor. Reproduced with the kind permission of Warren Photographic Digital Image Library
3 March 2008
Some Real Good Quotes: Pitts, Jarrell, Saramago
Map of Latium, from Lavinia. Desktop wallpaper downloads. Artist: Jeffery C. Mathison
25 February 2008
Library Journal’s starred review calls Lavinia “Le Guin’s brilliant reimagining of the last six books of Virgil’s epic poem.” The reviewer says “...this beautiful and moving novel is a love offering to one of the world’s great poets...” “Highly recommended.”
19 February 2008
Scribner’s will publish a new edition of UKL’s classic novel The Lathe of Heaven in April, 2008.
11 February 2008
“Breaking into the Spell,” An interview with Ursula K. Le Guin. Conducted by Alexander Chee at Guernica Magazine, February 2008.
8 February 2008
The Oregonian’s Steve Duin interviews UKL: “For Le Guin, the Journey Never Ends.”
5 February 2008
Kirkus starred review of Lavinia: “Le Guin has researched this ancient world assiduously, and her measured, understated prose captures with equal skill the permutations of established ritual and ceremony and the sensations of the battlefield.... Arguably her best novel, and an altogether worthy companion volume to one of the Western world’s greatest stories.”
5 February 2008
Interview for Spanish Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine Fantasymundo — en castellano/in English. Conducted by Alejandro Serrano.
4 February 2008
Read by the Author: Ursula reads A Book of Songs: Twelve Poems from Incredible Good Fortune.
3 February 2008
Kirkus Spring & Summer Preview describes Lavinia as “what may be the crowning magnum opus of her storied career.” Review quotes and UKL interview.
31 January 2008
Read by the Author: Ursula reads “She Unnames Them,” from Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences.
27 January 2008
“For Judith,” at Gay Utopia, reprinted from Going out with Peacocks and Other Poems
26 January 2008
Seattle Times Book Editor Michael Upchurch comments on UKL’s Harper’s article in Book Buzz: “Strong words about books and readers fling the gauntlet down at publishing’s Big Biz.” The Seattle Times, Friday, January 18, 2008.
22 January 2008
“The shelf-life of shadows” — UKL reviews People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks, at The Guardian, Saturday, January 19, 2008.
22 January 2008
Read by the Author: Ursula reads Three Poems from Wild Angels
20 January 2008
An excerpt from Lavinia, (Harcourt, April 2008), and dates for Ursula’s west coast book tour.
15 January 2008
Read by the Author debuts: Ursula reads an excerpt from A Wizard of Earthsea, Chapter 10: “The Open Sea” [5Mb MP3]
11 January 2008
“Staying Awake: Notes on the alleged decline of reading,” Harper’s Magazine, February 2008, p 33.
11 January 2008
“Le Guin is famous for creating alternative worlds (as in Left Hand of Darkness), and she approaches Lavinia’s world, from which Western civilization took its course, as unique and strange as any fantasy. It’s a novel that deserves to be ranked with Robert Graves’s I, Claudius.” Starred Review of Lavinia, Publishers Weekly, 24 December 2007
(2 January 2008)
Earthsea Ambigram by Ryan Grohsmeyer (Posted 18 December 2007)
Review of Powers in the Toronto Star. (Posted 16 December 2007)
Neat Stuff: Brian Doyle suggests: “Five things to do with your kicker check.” (The Oregonian) (Posted 11 December 2007)
Sigmund and the blind seer: UKL Reviews Girl Meets Boy, by Ali Smith, and Where Three Roads Meet, by Salley Vickers. [Offsite link to Guardian Unlimited] (Posted 8 December 2007)
11 November 2007: Schedule Update: A Post-Performance Chat: On November 25th, 2007, following a performance of Collected Stories by Donald Margulies, starring Vana and Eleanor O’Brien, I will be leading a short discussion of the play with the actors and audience. The play begins at 2:00 p.m., at the Coho Theater in Portland (on NW Raleigh St just below 23rd Ave.)
6 November 2007: The Death Ray Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin, conducted by Guy Haley. Death Ray is an SF magazine that covers all aspects of science fiction, fantasy and supernatural horror in all media, and in great depth. It’s available in the USA in Barnes and Noble and Borders, and in the UK in highstreet newsagents, WHSmith’s, and supermarkets. Deathray #5, October 2007. Interview reprinted with the kind permission of Blackfish Publishing.
30 October 2007: Review by Lisa Goldstein of Powers, at Strange Horizons
30 October 2007: Portland Audubon Society Wild Arts Festival artwork and schedule.
22 October 2007: Schedule Update
14 October 2007: Followup to SFWA, Piracy, and Serious Literature — An Open Letter
12 October 2007: SFWA, Piracy, and Serious Literature — An Open Letter
2 October 2007: "With compelling themes about the soul-crushing effects of slavery, and a journey plotline that showcases Le Guin’s gift for creating a convincing array of cultures, this follow-up to Gifts (2004) and Voices (2006) may be the series’ best installment." — Jennifer Mattson, Booklist Online. [complete review]
2 October 2007: Guest article Tehanu: A Return to the Source, by Sharada Bhanu, from her doctoral thesis.
22 September 2007: Neat Stuff: Roger Ebert on Karen Joy Fowler’s The Jane Austen Book Club.
22 September 2007: Head Cases: UKL reviews The Stone Gods, by Jeanette Winterson. The Guardian.
21 September 2007: Location & ticket details for Nye Beach Writers’ Series
16 September 2007: "Goodbye to All That: The decline of the coverage of books isn’t new, benign, or necessary ," by Steve Wasserman, Columbia Journalism Review, September/October 2007.
14 September 2007: Review of Powers, The Globe and Mail, 8 September 2007, by Sarah Ellis. "So, let’s play. What if there were a writer who exhibited all the inventiveness of genre fantasy but played out the action with a cast of nuanced, gritty, convincing characters in a prose style that was as lean, distilled and rhythmical as poetry?... Speculate no more. That writer is Ursula K. Le Guin." [complete review]
12 September 2007: Neat stuff: Ansible Technologies’ Ursula K. Le Guin page.
12 September 2007: Neat Stuff: Ms. Margaret the Black Cat and Jane on Her Own, courtesy of Nicholson Library.
6 September 2007: New website navigation.
6 September 2007: New Maps: Gethen, Sur, Orsinia, Victoria Penal Colony, The Western Shore
3 September 2007: Some Books I’ve Liked
31 August 2007: Powers, the third book of the Annals of the Western Shore, is now available at Powell’s Books. The official publication date is in September 2007.
31 August 2007: New Photos
30 August 2007: A Celebration of Grace Paley by Robin Morgan
22 August 2007: Grace Paley

Grace Paley died on August 22d 2007. She was a beloved friend and one of the great story-writers of America. I will miss her laugh, her brilliant common sense, her kindness, her wit, her warmth, forever. It is an abiding joy to have known her. If you don’t know her work, this NYTimes obituary is a pretty good introduction, though her poetry deserves more mention. And here is a nice interview with Grace at Salon.com. — UKL
22 August 2007: Photo Album Update
21 August 2007: Schedule Update
18 August 2007: Other Voices, Vol. 28, has published six poems by UKL.
17 August 2007: Harper’s Magazine, September 2007, issue, publishes "On Serious Literature" under the title "I Know What You Read Last Summer" (Readings section).
15 August 2007: October 12 and 13, 2007, in New York, American Opera Projects will be doing a staged version with piano of the Prologue and Act I Scene 3 of Stephen Andrew Taylor’s opera Paradises Lost. The entire opera will be performed at the University of Illinois in Spring 2009.
The libretto is by Stephen Andrew Taylor and Kate Gale, with input from me. It is based on my generation-ship novella "Paradises Lost," in The Birthday of the World Excerpts were performed at the New York City Opera’s festival VOX this spring.
7 August 2007: Powers is now available at Powell’s Bookstore.
4 August 2007: Music online update: Paradises Lost.
15 August 2007: October 12 and 13, 2007, in New York, American Opera Projects will be doing a staged version with piano of the Prologue and Act I Scene 3 of Stephen Andrew Taylor’s opera Paradises Lost. The entire opera will be performed at the University of Illinois in Spring 2009.
The libretto is by Stephen Andrew Taylor and Kate Gale, with input from me. It is based on my generation-ship novella "Paradises Lost," in The Birthday of the World Excerpts were performed at the New York City Opera’s festival VOX this spring.
7 August 2007: Powers is now available at Powell’s Bookstore.
4 August 2007: Edward Champion’s Roundup reports: "Ursula K. Le Guin, hubba hubba! Yowzahs! Rowr!" [offsite link continues]
27 July 2007: Schedule Update and date change
25 July 2007: How to Pronounce Me
17 July 2007: Return of the Genre Zombie: PDF of "On Serious Literature" with cover by Bellatrys. [offsite link]
5 July 2007: Origin, Sixth Series, Issue 4, including "Extinction," a poem by Ursula K. Le Guin. [5.75Mb PDF]
3 July 2007: The Hidden Sky: A Chamber Opera based on the Le Guin Short Story "The Masters."
3 July 2007: Audio section debuts
July 2007: Ansible reprints "On Serious Literature"
23 June 2007: Schedule update
18 June 2007: Some Books I’ve Liked (June 2007)
18 June 2007: On Serious Literature
16 June 2007: "The soldier’s grave" — UKL reviews Penelope Lively’s Consequences. [Offsite link to The Guardian]
8 June 2007: Excerpt from Powers, forthcoming from Harcourt, September 2007.
14 May 2007: An Analysis of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Short Story "Sur," is no longer available on this website.
12 May 2007: "The Baby-Snatchers" — UKL reviews Suffer the Little Children, by Donna Leone [Offsite link to The Guardian]
7 May 2007: Schedule update
5 May 2007: "Findings," a short story by Ursula K. Le Guin, at Moondance, May 2007.
27 April 2007: Schedule update
27 April 2007: A Wizard of Earthsea joins the National Endowment of the Arts’ Big Read Library
26 April 2007: The President of Harvard
24 April 2007: Pictures of Fishermen
24 April 2007: Locus Award nomination for Voices.
24 April 2007: Interview by Margarita Meklina (in Russian)
19 April 2007: Magda Healey at The Bookbag reviews Voices.
3 June 2007: "Read Any Good Books Lately?" [New York Times (May require log-in)]
24 April 2007: Locus Award nomination for Voices
24 April 2007: Interview by Margarita Meklina (in Russian)
19 April 2007: Magda Healey at The Bookbag reviews Voices. "...her tales are universally readable..." [complete review]
29 March 2007: Manoel Felciano presened and starred in an evening of semi-staged concert version of select moments from The Hidden Sky, based on "The Masters" by Ursula K. Le Guin. May 2007, Joe's Pub, New York City.
12 March 2007: New in the Photo Gallery: "Queen Ursula" — photo by Denise Rehse Watson
5 March 2007: Richard D. Erlich's Coyote's Song: The Teaching Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin.
5 March 2007: The Vigil for Ben Linder
26 February 2007: Kesh Musicians: Photo by Brian Attebery, from Mythcon XIX, 1988.
27 February 2007The Direction of the Road: A new limited edition from Foolscap Press.
17 February 2007: Extrapolation (Winter 2006, Vol 47, No. 3) is a "Le Guin issue," with essays by Richard D. Ehrlich, Alexis Lothian, Andy Sawyer, Warren G. Rochelle, Mike Cadden, Sandra Lindow, Ria Cheyne, Sonja Fritzsche, and Darko Suvin.
12 February 2007: "Wizard Oil," by Carol Pinchefsky, Intergalactic Medicine Show
16 January 2007: Link to Laura Quilter's Ursula K. Le Guin Bibliography: Reviews & Critical Studies
14 January 2007: Reading Manuscripts
News Archives, 2006 and earlier: Announcements
22 December 2006: "ImaginaryFriends," New Statesman.
20 December 2006: Authors Speak: What Books are You Giving This Year?
14 December 2006:Photos by Dan Tuffs
13 December 2006: Secondary Sources update
12 December 2006: Ursula K. Le Guin's Bookshelf at Powell's Bookstore
11 December 2006: Some Books I've Liked.
11 December 2006: Smaugwurst
25 November 2006: New Poems
18 November 2006: Entrevista a Ursula K. Le Guin. English translation
12 November 2006: New reviews for Voices and Gifts
5 November 2006: Very Short Stories: SF in six words at Wired magazine.
5 November 2006:"Mystical, magical worlds worth visiting again and again," by Michael Berry (New review of Voices at San Francisco Chronicle)
1 November 2006: "Music & Poetry of the Kesh," by Ursula K. Le Guin & Todd Barton.
27 October 2006: "Being Despicable" update
27 October 2006: Schedule Update
27 October 2006: The Charles Erskine Scott Wood Distinguished Writer Award
26 October 2006: Bibliography update (Audiobooks & Collaborations with Composers).
23 October 2006: Maxine Cushing Gray Award acceptance speech
15 October 2006: "Fairy tales for cynics," a review by Ursula K. Le Guin of The Ladies of Grace Adieu And Other Stories, by Susanna Clarke. [offsite link to The Los Angeles Times: May require registration]
15 October 2006: The Son of the Anime Master Begins His Quest for Honor, by Charles Solomon. [offsite link to The New York Times: May require registration]
3 October 2006: Femin magazine: The original questions and answers on which an interview published in the Japanese feminist magazine FEMIN was based — translated into Japanese by the interviewer, Chieko Akaishi. [offsite link to Femin]
3 October 2006: Director fights to get out of father's shadow, by Elaine Lies [offsite link to Reuters] [offsite link to Reuters]
26 September 2006: Read Something Dangerous: Banned Book Week celebrates 25 years of reader subversion, by David Jasper [Offsite Link to the Bend, Oregon, Bulletin 9/24/2006]
22 September 2006: Ursula K. Le Guin: Index of information on the Annals of the Western Shore
21 September 2006: "Reclaiming Omelas," by Robert C. Koehler. [offsite link to smirkingchimp.com]
21 September 2006: Email experiment update
19 September 2006: Maxine Cushing Gray Fellowship for distinguished body of work.
19 September 2006: Calendar Update
19 September 2006: Notes & Comments: "Being Despicable"
19 August 2006: Gedo Senki: index of information
16 August 2006: Email experiment: What's happened so far
13 August 2006: Gedo Senki, a First Response
28 July 2006: Email Experiment
28 July 2006: About Letters
26 July 2006: New offsite link: Healing Stories: Picture books for the big and small changes in a child's life.
24 July 2006: "Mermaid on dry land— UKL reviews Margaret Drabble's The Sea Lady at The Guardian.
4 June 2006: Wiscon photographs at Élisabeth Vonarburg's website.
4 June 2006: WisCon30 Bar Menu — SF Drinks by Brian Lansing of the Concourse Hotel.
22 April 2006: "Meet the first action heroes," London Times article
21 April 2006: Gedo Senki (Tales from Earthsea) — Studio Ghibli Film Synopsis
19 April 2006: Printer-friendly Bibliography [PDF]
17 April 2006: What Makes a Story
16 April 2006: Bibliography update
12 April 2006: Wordstock schedule
18 March 2006: Impenetrable Swamps, Loyal Dogs, Short Women: A quote from Alice Sheldon
16 March 2006: Ordinary Words by Jose Saramago
16 March 2006: Incredible Good Fortune now available.
22 February 2006: Schedule update
29 January 2006: "Shame," and its followup "The Shame of Earthsea: A Public Response To What Some Folks Are Saying About That Essay" by Pam Noles [offsite link to Infinite Matrix and typepad.com]
21 January 2006: Guest columnist Michael Kandel: Being an Editor
29 December 2005: Sabbatical extension
29 December 2005: The Magician: article/interview by Maya Jaggi, online at The Guardian [offsite link]
29 December 2005: Gedo Senki: Earthsea from Studio Ghibli [offsite link]
7 November 2005: Schedule Update
30 October 2005: From an early review of Incredible Good Fortune from PW
25 October 2005: Las Doce Moradas del Viento: A website, in Spanish, devoted to the work of Ursula K. Le Guin
5 October 2005: Interview at Bella Online
28 September 2005: New Poetry
26 September 2005: The Unshelved Book Club Presents A Wizard of Earthsea, by Bill Barnes & Gene Ambaum.
22 September 2005: Schedule Update, PEN USA awards ceremony date correction
6 September 2005: Schedule Update, PEN USA awards ceremony
6 September 2005: Manuscript Preparation
6 September 2005: A Sketchy Introduction to Copyright and Contracts
4 September 2005: PEN/USA award to Gifts
4 September 2005: Correction & Apology, The Wave in the Mind
5 July 2005: Diane Rehm Show: Readers Review: "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin (offsite link)
14 July 2005: Forthcoming publications for 2006: Voices and Incredible Good Fortune
14 July 2005: "A Message about Messages" — A new essay by UKL, first published by CBC Magazine
5 July 2005: New FAQs
5 July 2005: The Alchemy of Stars: Rhysling Award Winners Showcase
5 July 2005: Classic UKL poetry reprinted in Mythic Delirium
7 June 2005: The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed, edited by Laurence Davis and Peter Stillman, Afterword by Ursula K. Le Guin. (Lexington Books, June 2005) [Offsite link]
6 June 2005: Preliminary schedule for Science Fiction Research Association (Las Vegas, June 23 - 26, 2005) is now available.
30 May 2005: Plausibility Revisited — Wha Hoppen and What Didn't
25 May 2005: Plausibility in Fantasy
9 May 2005: Attention, people researching my children's and young adult fiction: this annual has much useful information, in my autobiographical note, the well-researched article about my books, and the Suggested Readings list. Before you write to ask me a question, you might look here! The Ninth Book of Junior Authors, ed. Connie C. Rockman. H.W. Wilson, New York and Dublin, 2004. Autobiographies and biographies of writers who write for children and young adults, with photos.
26 March 2005: Some Bird Songs
24 March 2005: In Memoriam: Andre Norton
8 March 2005: FAQ update: "In what order should I read the Ekumen, Earthsea, and Catwings books?"
25 February 2005: Schedule update
5 January 2005: "Frankenstein's Earthsea" available online at Locus Online and in print in the January, 2005, issue of Locus.
4 January 2005: Fantascienza articles on line (in Italian)
1 January 2005: TO THE PEOPLE WHO WROTE ME ABOUT THE SCI FI CHANNEL MINISERIES
21 December 2004: Science Fiction Conversations, Seattle TV interview scheduled for 23 December 2004.
16 December 2004: A Whitewashed Earthsea: How the Sci Fi Channel wrecked my books, a new essay by UKL at slate.com
16 December 2004: Sunken Treasure: Interview with UKL by Neil Drumming at Entertainment Weekly
23 November 2004: Le Guin books to be reissued
17 November 2004: Gifts News
15 November 2004: New News
13 November 2004: "Earthsea"
13 November 2004: Schedule update: November & December
1 November 2004: "Word for World is Imagination" Audio CD
16 October 2004: Página/12: Entrevista a Ursula K. Le Guin, por Sandra Chaher [offsite link; in Spanish]
15 October 2004: Notes & Comments: Lions & Cats
5 October 2004: Earthsea maps at wallpaper sizes
7 September 2004: Just published: Gifts
5 September 2004: Schedule update
18 August 2004: Studio 360
8 August 2004: "Earth Stories" on Stage at VERB — Literature in Performance, 8-15 August 2004
8 August 2004: New poems at poetrymagazine.com
6 August 2004: Notes & Comments: Earthsea Miniseries
16 July 2004: Schedule sabbatical
2 July 2004: Selected Stories of H.G. Wells, introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin
21 June 2004: "Some Assumptions about Fantasy," speech at Book Expo America
31 May 2004: Schedule update, July 15, 2004
26 May 2004: News update
25 May 2004: Gifts Excerpt now available at Harcourt.
8 May 2004: "Cheek by Jowl" Arbuthnot lecture: WMV audio-video [very large file]
5 May 2004: Guest Appearance: Catwings 6: Grandma Jane and her Grandkittens, by Mrs. Katz's First Grade Class
13 April 2004: Schedule Update & Corrections: April, June 2004
13 April 2004: Notes & Comments: "Concerning Ishi" and "The Panda Story"
21 February 2004: Short Bibliography (Updated February 2004)
21 February 2004: Bibliography (printer-friendly)
21 February 2004: Updated Biographical Data
20 February 2004: The Wave in the Mind
11 February 2004: North Coast, Charles A. Le Guin's first novel.
10 February 2004: Chronicles of Earthsea, Q&A at Guardian Unlimited
22 January 2004: Review by John Garrison of Kalpa Imperial
15 January 2004: Retrospective review by Sarah LeFanu of The Left Hand of Darkness
15 January 2004: News: Margaret A. Edwards Award
5 January 2004: Arbuthnot lecture information from Maricopa County Library District.
4 January 2004: Review by Gerald Jonas of Kalpa Imperial, at New York Times Sunday Book Review
29 December 2003: Review of Changing Planes by John Clute at Infinite Matrix
19 December 2003: Permission to Quote, Copy, Reprint, or Use Passages or Works
2 December 2003: West by Northwest Online Magazine: Life in the Wider Household of Being: An Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin, by Erika Milo
15 November 2003: The Bloomsbury Review on Changing Planes
17 October 2003: Classic of the Month at the Manchester Guardian: A Wizard of Earthsea, reviewed by Amanda Craig [offsite link]
28 August 2003: Some Poems in Time of Undeclared War
28 August 2003: "The End of a Dynasty or The Natural History of Ferrets," an excerpt from kalpa imperial, by Angélica Gorodischer, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin. [offsite link to Small Beer Press]
28 August 2003: Looking Glass Bookstore, Portland, OR, has signed copies of UKL's books, including Changing Planes. [Offsite link]
30 May 2003: Now available: First Men on the Moon, by H.G. Wells; introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin, Random House, 2003
28 May 2003: Unpublished maps from Always Coming Home
19 April 2003: Photos from a walk in Portland
18 April 2003: "The Wild Girls" earns 2003 Hugo Nomination [Torcon 3 website]
6 April 2003: Poets against the War Anthology
21 February 2003: Illustrations by Eric Beddows for Changing Planes
18 February 2003: "American Wars" — A new poem at Poets against the War [offsite link]
16 February 2003: Catwings 5 by Mrs. Katz's First Grade Class, based on Catwings, by Ursula K. Le Guin
29 January 2003: About Virginia Kidd
28 January 2003: World Dream Bank, including a Le Guin section, by Chris Wayan [offsite link]
22 January 2003: Jim Bittner's Le Guin Resources on the WWW: [offsite link]
20 January 2003: FAQ update: Have you disavowed everything you said in Language of the Night?
7 January 2003: Ursula K. Le Guin: 2003 SFWA Grand Master [offsite link to SFWA]
7 January 2003: Photos from the PEN/Malamud Ceremony
3 January 2003: Tad Nyggja Atlantis: A news item for readers of Faroese.
21 December 2002: Portland Oregonian Interview with UKL: "'An old wrinkly person' discusses her latest award" [offsite link]
4 December 2002: Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin, announced for Spring 2003
1 December 2002: Free Ebooks Excerpts from HarperCollins
27 November 2002: UKL's Report on the PEN/Malamud Award
23 November 2002: The Endeavour Award
3 November 2002: World Fantasy Awards announced
21 October 2002: Pen/Malamud Award to UKL
19 September 2002: "The Queen of Quinkdom," by Margaret Atwood, a review of The Birthday of the World and Other Stories. [offsite link to New York Review of Books]
16 September 2002: Always Coming Home: Excerpts
13 September 2002: The Guardian reviews The Other Wind
12 September 2002: The Portland Oregonian reviews The Lathe of Heaven remake
8 September 2002: Two Trilogies and a Mystery: Speculations on the Earthsea Stories, by Margaret Mahy
6 September 2002: The Flyers of Gy — An Interplanary Tale (No longer available at scifi.com)
31 August 2002: A note from UKL and from her literary agent about derivative fiction.
21 August 2002: A note from UKL about the Lathe of Heaven remake
28 July 2002: Table of Contents, Changing Planes (forthcoming Spring 2003)
26 June 2002: Online Stories link to "The Seasons of the Ansarac" at Infinite Matrix
18 April 2002: Articles & Comments
18 April 2002: sign up for HarperCollins "Author Tracker" to receive notice of books, events, promotions, and news of Ursula K. Le Guin
The Lathe of Heaven: Chapter 1 [offsite link to HarperCollins]
HarperCollins Perfectbound ebooks.
16 March 2002: Excerpts from The Birthday of the World
15 March 2002: Foreword to The Birthday of the World
14 March 2002: Teddy Harvia's Hugo History at a Glance -- Le Guin [off-site link]
13 February 2002: "Driven By A Different Chauffeur: An Interview With Ursula K. Le Guin," conducted by Nick Gevers [off-site link to The SF Site]
22 January 2002: Excerpt from "Stone Telling," from Always Coming Home [off-site link to University of California Press]
22 January 2002: Which Wizard Beats 'Em All? by James Gorman [off-site link to The New York Times, January 11, 2002]
[UKL ebooks are now available from Kobo.] 22 January 2002: On-line stories at fictionwise.com
21 January 2002: "The Cusp of Change" -- Essay by Maureen Scott Harris on Tales from Earthsea and The Other Wind
5 December 2001: Photo Album
4 December 2001: Endeavor Award
7 November 2001: The Telling: An Excerpt
7 November 2001: Gabriela Mistral: Note
7 November 2001: Gabriela Mistral: Poems translated by Ursula K. Le Guin
7 November 2001: October 2001 interview on Hour 25
7 November 2001: Autographs & letters
20 October 2001: Interview in Tekbug #3 [Offsite link to soon-to-be-available PDF file]
10 October 2001: New offsite link: Review by UKL of Ledoyt, by Carol Emshwiller; UKL's appearance on Hour 25, 29 September 2000.
10 October 2001: New offsite link: UKL's appearance on Hour 25 (29 September 2000).
24 September 2001: Website premieres