Consolidated List of Announcements, Recent Information, Website Additions, & Schedule Updates
In order (newest first) of date posted to ursulakleguin.com
Pard’s Christmas, 2014 , at the blog of UKL.5 January 2015
10 Underrated Novels by Women You Should Resolve to Read in 2015 , by Hannah Nelson-Teutsch at bustle.com
1 January 2015
New publicity photos by Jack Liu
24 December 2014
Everything’s Coming Together While Everything Falls Apart , by
Rebecca Solnit at Huffington Post.24 December 2014
Index of information, videos, links for NBF Medal Ceremony
, at New York Magazine
18 December 2014
How Ursula Le Guin’s Very Far Away From Anywhere Else Made Me Feel Less Alone , by Emily Schultz, at bustle.com
10 December 2014
92. Knowing a Book by its Cover , at the blog of UKL.8 December 2014
When Science Fiction Stopped Caring About the Future , by Noah Berlatsky, the Atlantic 6 December 2014
Newsmaker: Ursula K. Le Guin , interview by Claire Bushey for American Libraries Magazine4 December 2014
In my acceptance speech for the NBF Medal, I use the words “beautiful reward” more than once. I thought people would recognize it as a quote from The Boss: My Beautiful Reward .
— UKL
Ursula K. Le Guin on reaction to her passionate speech: ‘I went sort of viral on YouTube’ , by Jeff Baker, at The Oregonian 26 November 2014
Ursula Le Guin: she got there first , by John Freeman, The Boston Globe.
22 November 2014
Ursula Le Guin: ‘Wizardry is artistry’ : Interview with UKL by Hari Kunzru, in The Guardian 21 November 2014
The National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
5 December 2014
Ursula K. Le Guin on reaction to her passionate speech: ‘I went sort of viral on YouTube’ , by Jeff Baker, at The Oregonian 26 November 2014
From Ursula —
To all the old friends and new friends who’ve contacted me to tell me they liked what I said — I wish I could thank each one of you.
I can’t do that. But I can share with you my feeling about what the unexpectedly strong response to my talk tells me:
There are a lot of us “people of the book” who aren’t willing to define value only in terms of salability, or to become grateful fiefs of the market lords, but who intend to write and publish as we see fit and get a fair price for it. Facing the endlessly divisive power of growth capitalism, we — writers, publishers, readers — are beginning to remember that, if we stick together in our own interest and “keep our eyes on the prize,” we really are a power in our own right. A friendly power . . .
UKL
Sah-Harah by Gheorghe Sasarman, translated by UKL, is now online at Lightspeed Magazine, which is also available in ebook formats .
Squaring the Circle 4 November 2014
91. The Inner Child and the Nude Politician , at the blog of UKL.3 November 2014
Schedule Update : Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (The ceremony will be live-streamed ); Wild Arts Festival
30 October 2014
90. Catching Up Ha Ha , at the blog of UKL.20 October 2014
21 July 2014
Margaret Atwood Chooses A Wizard of Earthsea , at the Wall Street Journal Book Club
17 October 2014
Out Here Raven Studios 17 October 2014
Amazon and Its Missing Books
, by David Streitfeld, at the New York Times 13 October 2014
Stone Mattress: Nine Tales, by Margaret Atwood12 October 2014
Hobo Magazine Interview with UKL by Heather Davis now online.3 October 2014
Schedule update: Eastern Oregon Word Round-Up . October 3-5, 2014, Pendleton, Oregon.
2 October 2014
Literary Lions Unite in Protest Over Amazon’s E-Book Tactics , by David Streitfeld, New York Times
29 September 2014
7 Reasons to Fall in Love With Ursula K. Le Guin , by Gina Vaynshteyn, at bustle.com. “Le Guin’s work is garnering monumental recognition because it has stood out in terms of conventions and ingenuity.” [continued ]
17 September 2014
Some Translations from various languages by UKL.13 September 2014
Schedule update: Eastern Oregon Word Round-Up . October 3-5, 2014, Pendleton, Oregon.
12 September 2014
Ursula K Le Guin, rising above genre and so much else , by Alison Flood, Guardian Online. “...and I think she may, possibly, be my favourite yet...”11 September 2014
The 2014 Medalist for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters : “One of Literature’s most prestigious honors, the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters recognizes individuals who have made an exceptional impact on this country’s literary heritage.” [continued ]9 September 2014
AP:
Le Guin wins honorary National Book Award
9 September 2014
Real History of Science Fiction , at BBC America.
Videos now available. UKL interviewed in Episode 2: Space
17 August 2014
An interesting survey of Le Guin's earliest works:
The Left and Right Hands of Ursula K. Le Guin
, by Andrew Liptak, Kirkus Reviews
17 August 2014
89. About Anger Part i , at the blog of UKL.11 August 2014
Authors Protest Against Amazon’s Anti-Author/Anti-Publisher Policy: Authors United
10 August 2014
Ursula K. Le Guin talks to Michael Cunningham about genres, gender, and broadening fiction at Electric Literature. Includes Diversion Books’ eBook of LeGuin’s genre-busting novel The Lathe of Heaven for just $3.99.
7 August 2014
UKL Chases Flying Squirrels #36: The New Film Code
7 August 2014
Skylight by José Saramago — love, life and loss in LisbonThe Guardian 25 July 2014
88. Annals of Pard XII: An Unfinished Education , at the blog of UKL.21 July 2014
87. The Myth of the Veneer , at the blog of UKL.7 July 2014
Ursula Le Guin: You never stop learning , interview by David Larsen. New Zealand Herald.
1 July 2014
Hands : Photo by Moira McAuliffe25 June 2014
Women Remember: A Roundtable Interview , conducted by Mary Robinette Kowal at Lightspeed , with UKL, Pat Cadigan, Ellen Datlow, and Nancy Kress.19 June 2014
Schedule Update : Wednesday, June 18, 2014 — 7:30 PM.
Mountain Writers Series :
Kate Gale & Ursula K. Le Guin
PDF Announcement
15 June 2014
”NUMBER ONE: You Don’t Shop There For Anything!” — Sherman Alexie
Watch author Sherman Alexie talking with Steven Colbert about Amazon Dot Com.
Amazon now controls 40 to 50% of the book market and aims to control 100% of it. The publishers Hachette and Bonnier have refused to accept some of Amazon’s author-ruining, publisher-wrecking, indie-bookstore-destroying policies. So Jeff Bezos won’t sell you a Hachette book, or won’t deliver it for weeks.
This is blatant abuse of trade and abuse of customers. Amazon can only get away with it if we refuse to let them get away with it.
DON’T BUY FROM AMAZON!
DON’T SHOP THERE FOR ANYTHING!
(and tell your friends on Facebook and Twitter!)
Powell’s Bookstore
Ursula Le Guin dazzles PCC’s standing-room-only crowds , by Becky Olson and Janis Nichols, at Portland Community College News6 June 2014
Entanglement: Angélica Gorodischer’s Kalpa Imperial , by Sofia Samatar, at tor.com5 June 2014
86. The Internet as Heaven , at the blog of UKL.2 June 2014
UKL Chases Flying Squirrels #35: Mum
26 May 2014
Alison Hallett at The Portland Mercury reports on the Powell’s Event in which UKL, Cheryl Strayed, and Lidia Yuknavitch discussed books they love that have been out of print but are being brought back by Pharos Editions. Crazy Weather
17 May 2014
85. Pard and the Time Machine , at the blog of UKL.
5 May 2014
Diversion Books presents The Lathe of Heaven Excerpt at Slate.
22 April 2014
Powell’s Event , May 15, 2014: Ursula K. Le Guin will join Cheryl Strayed and Lidia Yuknavitch on May 15 to discuss books they love that have been out of print but are being brought back by Pharos Editions. Crazy Weather 18 April 2014
The Lathe of Heaven Slate. 17 April 2014
Free Radio Santa Cruz : Interview with UKL
on The Great Leap Forward
with John Malkin on
FREE RADIO SANTA CRUZ
101.3 FM & freakradio.org
(click on red button atop the radio tower to listen). Wednesday, April 16, 2014,
7:00 p.m. PDT. Interview will be printed in Santa Cruz Good Times , 1 May 2014.7 April 2014
84. The Circling Stars, the Sea Surrounding , at the blog of UKL.7 April 2014
WMC Live with Robin Morgan : Poet Ursula K. Le Guin will be featured, along with poets Irena Klepfisz and Toi Derricotte, on a special episode of “Women’s Media Center Live with Robin Morgan” this Saturday, April 12, 2014. All three women will discuss the craft of poetry and read some poems, in celebration of Poetry Month. The program airs on CBS Radio WJFK 1580 in the mid-Atlantic region at 11 AM, and posts online the same morning as a podcast on WMCLive.com and on iTunes, where it is accessed and subscribed to in 101 countries around the world.6 April 2014
BBC America — The Real History of Science Fiction
features UKL in Episode 2, 26 April 2014. Series begins 19 April 2014.4 April 2014
Schedule Update 28 March 2014
Oregon Book Awards: the first fiction award winner remembers his medal from Ursula K. Le Guin , by Russell Working, The Oregonian .
Resurrectionist. We were making up everything as we went along at that point, all the awards, the ceremony. We were Brian Booth, who dreamed it up out of his head alone, and funded it, and made it happen — and William Stafford, Vern Rutsala, Floyd Skloot, and me, and some other writer types that Brian got together to help him figure out what to do. He said what should we call the Fiction award? and I said, The H.L. Davis, of course! because Honey in the Horn was the best and greatest novel about Oregon. If you haven’t read Honey in the Horn , well, it’s not your fault, because it’s out of print, but whose fault is it that it’s out of print? Anyhow, I have to admit that in my mind this is still the H.L. Davis Award. And I am getting it. Again. And I am so proud to get it, once, or again, or ever, I can’t tell you. I came to Oregon by luck, which has lasted 55 years, and no plan can beat good luck. What goes round, comes round, and sometimes it comes round better than you could imagine. The only possible response is gratitude.” — UKL
26 March 2014
83. Cats, Claws, Panic , at the blog of UKL.
24 March 2014
Ursula K. Le Guin, the Oregon Book Awards’ once and future queen , Steve Duin, The Oregonian 21 March 2014
Tin House Books is working with Oregon Literary Arts on A Literary Arts Reader ,
20 March 2014
Oregon Book Awards: UKL wins Ken Kesey Award for Fiction for
The Unreal and The Real: Collected Stories Volume 1 and 2 Oregon Book Awards ” by Jeff Baker at Oregonlive.com
18 March 2014
Luis Alberto Urrea and UKL at the Oregon Book Awards: Luis Alberto Urrea: “Together again. My Tia Osa Ursula K. LeGuin. She started it all for me.”
18 March 2014
“Mountain Ways ” reprinted in Clarkesworld 90 .
9 March 2014
UKL and Hugh Howey at AWP.3 March 2014
“The Clients of Agent Virginia Kidd
” by Andrew Liptak, at Kirkus Reviews
3 March 2014
Schedule Update: Anthropocene: Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet , Santa Cruz
3 March 2014
The Wild Girls book signing at the PM Press booth, South Hall #601, Saturday, March 1st, 2014, 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m., AWP Conference, Seattle, WA. Click Here for Online Schedule 27 February 2014
Cat Rock : artwork by Alika Kalaida, photos by Katie Burkart26 February 2014
Flickr Stream for “Transformation without Apocalypse,” Oregon State University: School of History, Philosophy, and Religion18 February 2014
82. Belief in Belief , at the blog of UKL.10 February 2014
Review of On Such a Full Sea by Chang-rae Lee by UKL at The Guardian3 February 2014
Kinship , a poem by UKL at Orion Magazine, January/February 201426 January 2014
India in Botswana : The blog of India Downes-Le Guin25 January 2014
Elementals , at Lightspeed Magazine .
Text & Audio —
Author Spotlight —
Lightspeed Ebook .
21 January 2014
About Uses of Music in Uttermost Parts , by UKL. Music by Elinor Armer, text by UKL. New excerpts at SoundCloud (may load slowly; sound may auto-start).
18 January 2014
Ursula K. Le Guin Chases Flying Squirrels #34 : “Dances With Rhinos”17 January 2014
Oregon Book Award finalists announced: Ursula K. Le Guin, Mary Szybist lead the list , by Jeff Baker, The Oregonian . UKL is a finalist for the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction, for The Unreal and The Real: Collected Stories Volume 1 and 2 .7 January 2014
81. Annals of Pard IX: The Tango , at the blog of UKL.06 January 2014
King Dog: A Movie for the Mind’s Eye is part of Book View Café’s Boxing Day Week ebook sale .27 December 2013
Holiday Reading Series #2 — Coming Back to the Lady , by UKL, from In the Blast Zone: Catastrophe and Renewal on Mount St. Helens 26 December 2013
Interview with SFWA Grand Master Ursula K. Le Guin
, conducted by R.K. Troughton, at Amazing Stories 26 December 2013
Ursula K. Le Guin Chases Flying Squirrels #33 : “Why People are Motivated to Drive while Texting”26 December 2013
The Pleasures of Reading, Viewing, and Listening in 2013: Wu Ming-Yi, a name to remember , by UKL, at Ambling Along the Aqueduct17 December 2013
Spotlight: Ursula K. Le Guin & The Hainish Cycle Series , reviewed at Impressions of a Reader17 December 2013
Nothing Holds Back the Night by Delphine de Vigan — review by UKL at The Guardian .
17 December 2013
The Left Hand of Darkness reviewed by Kate Neilan, at Adventures with Words15 December 2013
Ursula K. Le Guin Chases Flying Squirrels #32 : “The Daily Ho-Hum”15 December 2013
80. Kids’ Letters , at the blog of UKL.9 December 2013
The Paris Review interviews Ursula K. Le Guin, The Art of Fiction No. 221 ,
Interviewed by John Wray
4 December 2013
Ursula K. Le Guin Chases Flying Squirrels #31 : “As Time Runs Out, Trapped Ideas Find Freedom”3 December 2013
Holiday Sale at PM Press includes UKL’s The Wild Girls
30 November 2013
Entertainment Weekly staff pick: The Best YA Novel of All Time , by Darren Franich, 19 November 201326 November 2013
79. TGAN , at the blog of UKL.25 November 2013
The New Atlantis ” ebook.
19 November 2013
An Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin , conducted by Alexandra Manglis at Wave Composition.
10 November 2013
10 Reasons Why Le Guin's Earthsea Books Can Still Change Your Life , by Charlie Jane Anders, io9.com6 November 2013
Impact of Imagination on Society Award from the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation, to Ursula K. Le GuinVIDEO
4 November 2013
78. Blurbery , at the blog of UKL.
4 November 2013
Interview with Karabatak 9 .
In English
In Turkish [3.1Mb PDF]
27 October 2013
Imaginative Anthropology: In Celebration of Ursula K. Le Guin , by Leah Schnelbach at tor.com
22 October 2013
77. Annals of Pard VIII , at the blog of UKL.
21 October 2013
76. Steens Mountain Region, August 2013 , at the blog of UKL.
21 October 2013
Peninsulas and Islands: A Tale for Coastal Communities , a review by Margaret Hammitt-McDonald of North Coast 16 October 2013
Portland State, UP, Willamette, Oregon host literary events , by Jeff Baker, oregonlive.com.
11 October 2013
75. Doggerel for a Cat
7 October 2013
Ursula K. Le Guin Chases Flying Squirrels #30 : The Most Hapless Squirrel
5 October 2013
Deirdre Byrne: What Is Not Owned: Feminist strategies in Ursula Le Guin’s poetry. Foundation, the International Review of Science Fiction5 October 2013
Ursula K. Le Guin Encourages Stealing, Went to High School With Philip K. Dick , by Ryan Britt, at tor.com
1 October 2013
Author hero Ursula K. Le Guin in Puyallup (nearly Tacoma) , by Katy Evans, Post Defiance.
1 October 2013
From the Stacks: Ursula K. Le Guin Reviews Italo Calvino's “Italian Folktales” , The New Republic.
21 September 2013
Schedule update
12 September 2013
The Oregonian profiles UPFOR , Theo Downes-Le Guin’s new Portland gallery: In the new Pearl District gallery Upfor, art will reflect on technology , by Sara Hottman, The Oregonian.
3 September 2013
74. Oregon High Desert
2 September 2013
TOP SHELF: 12 Best of the U.S.: The Left Hand of Darkness , by David Bowles, The Monitor
23 August 2013
Ursula’s collection The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume One: Where on Earth and Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands (Small Beer) is shortlisted in the Best Collection category for the World Fantasy Award. The complete list of nominees can be found at the World Fantasy Convention home page .
15 August 2013
73. Walking through the Bottomland , at the blog of UKL.
29 July 2013
Zadie Smith is writing a science fiction novel inspired by Le Guin , by Charlie Jane Anders, at io9.com
25 July 2013
72. The Cat Letters , at the blog of UKL.
22 July 2013
Words of Power , an exhibit at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
20 July 2013
Notes on the Way/Apuntes en el viaje — Elisabeth C. Le Guin blogs on her experiences living in Mexico City the summer and autumn of 2013.
July 18, 2013
Hitting China’s Wall: “All economic data are best viewed as a peculiarly boring genre of science fiction . . .” — Paul Krugman,
The New York Times
July 18, 2013
Living Speech, Written Ink, and Dragons , by William Alexander. 1973 National Book Award Winner, The Farthest Shore.
7 July 2013
Bestselling authors call for library e-book lending . American Library Association Launches “Authors for Library E-books” Campaign. More information at Authors for Library Ebooks .
7 July 2013
71. Pard Pix: Annals of Pard VII , at the blog of UKL.
1 July 2013
Left Hand of Darkness 70. What’s Black and White and Orange All Over , at the blog of UKL.
24 June 2013
Seattle Public Library has posted the podcast of the book launch event for the Aqueduct Press edition of Squaring the Circle ,1 hour, 28Mb MP3 ]
12 June 2013
The Truth , by Andrew Cuomo, Governor of New York
10 June 2013
69. The Diminished Thing , at the blog of UKL.
10 June 2013
Ursula K. Le Guin Chases Flying Squirrels #29 : The Flying Squirrel Annual Anti-Reality Award
9 June 2013
The Left Hand of Darkness, currently on stage in Portland. The old person is the author of the novel, and the young one is Maeve Z O’Connor, who plays Estraven’s child, Sorve Harth rem ir Estraven.
3 June 2013
Event Report: Squaring the Circle at The Seattle Public Library3 June 2013
Publishers Weekly reviews Squaring the Circle: A Pseudotreatise of Urbogony “Trippy, cutting,” “extraordinary, timeless.”
3 June 2013
Is Force-Feeding Torture? , by Joe Nocera. The New York Times , 31 May 2013
Portland Playhouse extends its Left Hand again, pushing closing date of Ursula Le Guin adaptation to June 16 , by Marty Hughley, The Oregonian.
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In Search of an Elegy , by MacAllister, The Green Man Review, May 23, 2013. “...The poems range in length and form, romp with expression and wordplay, and wind about exploring the impossible and inexpressible, the sacred contrasted with the profane....”
28 May 2013
Translation as an Act of Love: Ursula K. Le Guin and Squaring the Circle , by Jeff VanderMeer, omnivoracious.com
27 May 2013
68. Why Your Library May Not Have the E-Book You Want , at the blog of UKL.
20 May 2013
Review: Hand2Mouth and Portland Playhouse Tackle Left Hand of Darkness , by Aaron Scott, Portland Monthly
15 May 2013
Adapting Le Guin:
Theater and Sci Fi, Together at Last , by Alison Hallett, Portland Mercury
8 May 2013
Theater Review The Left Hand of Darkness , by Rebecca Jacobson, Willamette Week .
8 May 2013
Alert to NWU members and other writers: Is your work about to be given away by France?
7 May 2013
Theater review: The Left Hand of Darkness on Stage finds deeply human love on a cold, blue world ,
by Marty Hughley, The Oregonian
6 May 2013
Review: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Left Hand of Darkness at Portland Playhouse , by Leela Ginelle, PQ Monthly
6 May 2013
Adapting The Left Hand of Darkness for the stage meant breaking the ice with author Ursula K. Le Guin , by Marty Hughley, The Oregonian.
5 May 2013
Ursula K. Le Guin Chases Flying Squirrels #28
5 May 2013
Adapting The Left Hand of Darkness for the stage meant breaking the ice with author Ursula K. Le Guin , by Marty Hughley, The Oregonian.
5 May 2013
“Putting The Left Hand of Darkness on stage ,” an interview with UKL by Dave Miller at Think Out Loud. [MP3 download ]
3 May 2013
Dmae Roberts, Stage and Studio , KBOO radio, interviews UKL , director Jonathan Walters, and actor Damian Thompson about the forthcoming stage play of The Left Hand of Darkness. [MP3 ] [SoundCloud ]
2 May 2013
Degender Bender , by Rebecca Jacobson, Willamette Week.
2 May 2013
Hand2Mouth Theatre and Portland Playhouse team up to take on classic tale 'The Left Hand of Darkness' , by Marty Hughley, The Oregonian
2 May 2013
Men Read Jane Austen, Stephenie Meyer, and Ursula K. Le Guin , by Noah Berlatsky, The Atlantic
30 April 2013
67. LaGuantanamera , at the blog of UKL.
29 April 2013
66. The Rehearsal , at the blog of UKL.
22 April 2013
Review of Patrick Ness’s The Crane Wife , by Ursula K. Le Guin, The Guardian.
21 April 2013
Review of Jo Walton’s Among Others , by Ursula K. Le Guin, The Guardian.
15 April 2013
These Mountains that Divide , poetry reading, Sunday, 21 April 2013, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m., Milepost 5 , Portland OR. Facebook event
11 April 2013
Schedule update : Portland Playhouse and Hand2Mouth Theater present a new stage adaptation of The Left Hand of Darkness, 2 May-2 June 2013
10 April 2013
The 25 Books Every Kid Should Have on Their Bookshelf (A Wizard of Earthsea), at flavorwire.com
9 April 2013
“Little and Big: a story about a town ,” by UKL at Upper Left Edge, 5 April 2013
9 April 2013
New photos: Ursula and Chaos at the Sigma Tau Delta Convention ,
Portland, Oregon, March 21, 2013
9 April 2013
Blogging for a Good Book reviews Finding My Elegy .
8 April 2013
Ursula K. Le Guin Chases Flying Squirrels #27
28 March 2013
65. Accidental Discovery , at the blog of UKL.
25 March 2013
Schedule update : Portland, Salem, Cannon Beach, Seattle, The Dalles
19 March 2013
Le Guin on the art of elegy, blogging and hearing the sea , Watt Childress, The Oregonian
17 March 2013
Update: Short Biography
7 March 2013
“World Without Imperialism
,” by Noah Berlatsky
7 March 2013
Schedule update : “Get Lit at the Beach,” Tolovana Arts Colony , April 12-14, 2013, Cannon Beach, OR.
6 March 2013
The Country That Stopped Reading , by David Toscana, New York Times
6 March 2013
“An Abundance of Excellence: Rethinking the Printz ” by Julie Bartel and Brooke Young
26 February 2013
“Classic sci-fi author Ursula K. Le Guin to speak at Berkeley ,” by Erik Swan, The Daily Californian Blog
22 February 2013
Schedule update: Avenali Lecture , UC Berkeley. Venue update.
22 February 2013
Google Again — The National Writers Union, Dramatists’ Guild, Romance Writers of America, Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, and others have filed an amicus brief with the 2d Circuit Court of Appeals, supporting class-action litigation against Google for the massive copyright infringement involved in scanning whole libraries of books without ascertaining their copyright status.
17 February 2013
Elinor Armer & UKL — Musical Science Fiction , at Composer’s Datebook, American Public Radio, 28 January 2013.
10 February 2013
Getting Away with Murder: The Millions Interviews Ursula K. Le Guin , by Paul Morton
31 January 2013
The Galixee, According to C.H. Downes-Le Guin
28 January 2013
The Trouble: Annals of Pard, Part V , at the blog of UKL.
28 January 2013
Updated Bibliography: Major Titles [Printer-friendly PDF, 60Kb, Updated January 2013]
27 January 2013
Paradises Lost .
27 January 2013
Ursula K. Le Guin Chases Flying Squirrels #26
24 January 2013
Kidnapped , at the blog of UKL.
21 January 2013
Ursula K. Le Guin Chases Flying Squirrels #25
20 January 2013
62. A Much-Needed Literary Award , at the blog of UKL. [Comments ]
7 January 2013
GMRC Review: Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin , by Scott Lazerus, at Worlds Without End Blog
3 January 2013
The Unreal and the Real Locus Magazine.
24 December 2012
Review of The Unreal and the Real , by Tobias Carroll, Minneapolis StarTribune.
24 December 2012
Ursula K. Le Guin Chases Flying Squirrels #24
21 December 2012
Review of Finding My Elegy , by Jillian Saucier, at rattle.com
20 December 2012
An interview with UKL in Russian , at Izvesia
19 December 2012
An Attempt to Think as a Free Thinker , at the blog of UKL.
17 December 2012
Beyond Elvish , by Patrick Cox, at The World.
16 December 2012
A Eulogy for Occupy , by Quinn Norton, at wired.com
15 December 2012
The Pleasures of Reading, Viewing, and Listening, pt.4: Three Novels , by UKL, at Aqueduct Press
12 December 2012
Book View Café Celebrates Ursula K. Le Guin
Celebrating Ursula: Articles , by Brenda W. Clough. Add to the list in the Comments section.
Fantasy is the Language of the Night — On Ursula K. Le Guin , by K.E. Kimbriel
Ursula K. Le Guin Saved My Life , by Nancy Jane Moore
No Need to Apologize , by Marie Brennan
3-7 December 2012
The Bradley Manning Case and Our Decade of Denial , by Seamus McKiernan. Huffington Post 12/01/2012
4 December 2012
The Real and Unreal: Ursula K. Le Guin, American Novelist — A major essay by Julie Phillips (author of James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon December Featured Link
The Slate Book Review Top 10 of 2012
3 December 2012
Pard and the Poets , at the blog of UKL.
3 December 2012
Robin Morgan interviews UKL , Women’ Media Center live.
1 December 2012
Two video clips, courtesy of Professor Eric S. Rabkin: “Ursula K. LeGuin: The Left Hand of Darkness Overview ” and “Ursula K. LeGuin: The Left Hand of Darkness Thesis .” Please click on "open/view" link for MP4 files. These are large files that will take a while to download.
Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Human Mind, Our Modern World . Register and take the course for free.
28 November 2012
The Unreal and the Real :26 November 2012
Dragons of the Everyday , review of The Unreal and the Real ,Wall Street Journal. “Many sci-fi authors, we know, are as clever and tricky as so many Coyotes. Ms. Le Guin, though, has matured from the vividness and imagination she had from the beginning into wisdom and a clearsightedness that reaches past sympathy.”
24 November 2012
Schedule update: 2013 events
24 November 2012
Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon , online interview
18 November 2012
An elegy from Ursula: poems for then and now , a review of Finding My Elegy by Bob Hicks
15 November 2012
UKL’s Wild Arts Festival schedule: Noon-4:00 p.m., Sunday, 18 November 2012.
15 November 2012
Catching up with Pard , at the blog of UKL.
12 November 2012
Schedule update: Change of location: Wednesday, November 14, 2012, 7:00 p.m.
The Black Box Theater
11 November 2012
“Ursula K Le Guin: stories for the ages ,” by Damien Walter, The Guardian online.
8 November 2012
No Better Spirit , The Unreal and the Real 7 November 2012
Music from the future , from Confessions of an Urban Druid.
5 November 2012
La ciencia ficción es una gran metáfora de la vida , interview with UKL by Jacinto Antón
30 October 2012
Bookmarks: Ursula K. Le Guin's two-volume selected stories due out in November , a review by Jeff Baker, The Oregonian . More information on The Unreal and the Real Interview with UKL , Fantasia Austral. In Spanish. Scroll down for English translation.
27 October 2012
Schedule Update: CANCELLED Los Angeles Public Library ALOUD , October 23, 2012.22 Octobeer 2012
The Science Fiction Book Club , London, England, chooses The Left Hand of Darkness October 2012
A Longhouse Birdhouse: Ursula K. Le Guin . Poems from Finding My Elegy 16 October 2012
Music & Poetry of the Kesh, Always Coming Home , words by Ursula K. Le Guin, music by Todd Barton. Now available at Book View Café. MP3s; Liner Notes, lyrics, translations (EPUB and MOBI). New edition March 2018 .
15 October 2012
Schedule Update: Crazy Eights Author Tour , 18 October 2012;
Los Angeles Public Library ALOUD, October 23, 2012.
16 Octobeer 2012
Writer’s Almanac : “A Request,” by UKL, from Finding My Elegy 8 October 2012
Restraint , at the blog of UKL.
8 October 2012
Restraint , at the blog of UKL.
8 October 2012
Ursula chases flying squirrels, #23: IS YOUR BUT WHERE YOU INTENDED IT TO BE, MR BROUN?
7 October 2012
Where to start with Tales From Earthsea author Ursula K. Le Guin , by Jason Heller. avclub.com
5 October 2012
Writer’s Almanac : “Song for a Daughter,” by UKL, from Finding My Elegy 3 October 2012
Schedule update : UKL at Clarion West Anniversary Event Elliott Bay Book Company , 11 October 2012.
1 October 2012
Writer’s Almanac : “Science,” by UKL, from Finding My Elegy 1 October 2012
Ursula K. Le Guin’s Unseen Forces of Nature Infiltrate Latest Issue of Tin House : A review of “Elementals” at Tor.com, by Ryan Britt.
1 October 2012
Schedule update : UKL at Clarion West Anniversary Event , 13 October 2012.
25 September 2012
The Earthsea Cycle is now available in ebook form at your favorite ebook distributor, including Nook/EPUB format at Powell’s Book Store:
A Wizard of Earthsea The Tombs of Atuan The Farthest Shore Tehanu Tales from Earthsea The Other Wind The World of Earthsea — UKL discusses the Earthsea series. New print and ebook editions now available.
23 September 2012
Review by Tom Lavole of Finding My Elegy, Shelf Awareness
23 September 2012
Boneland by Alan Garner4 September 2012
Review of The Lathe of Heaven , by KC, at Earthlight Books.
4 September 2012
Ursula chases flying squirrels, #22: Don’t Worry, Karl!
31 August 2012
Dancing the Tao: Le Guin and Moral Development , by Sandra J. Lindow, Cambridge Scholars Publishing . Sample PDF [135Kb]
29 August 2012
Libraries and Ebooks , at the blog of UKL.
27 August 20
Ursula chases flying squirrels, #21: The Flying Squirrel/Scrooge Award
25 August 2012
Ursula chases flying squirrels, #19: The Party of Legitimate Rape
20 August 2012
Walking in Cornwall .25 August 2012
Schedule Update: November 14, 2012: The Milwaukie (OR) Poetry Series
18 August 2012
Review of the stage adaptation of The Lathe of Heaven: Dream a little dream of mine , by Eugene R.
18 August 2012
Two Publishers, One Series: The Latest Tale of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea , by Sally Lodge, Publishers Weekly
3 August 2012
The Opening Night , at the blog of UKL.
30 July 2012
UC Riverside’s Eaton Lifetime Achievement Award
28 July 2012
Ursula chases flying squirrels, #19: The Biblical Definition of the Family Unit: Polygamy
28 July 2012
Ursula K. Le Guin pressured to make books “more like Harry Potter” , by Dan Roth at blastr.com
28 July 2012
Schedule update : Paulina Springs Bookstore, 5 August 2012
July 2012
Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy : Interview with UKL
25 July 2012
Ursula chases flying squirrels, #18: The Wonderful World of Modern Sports: Or, 1.8 to 1
24 July 2012
The World of Earthsea — UKL discusses the Earthsea series. New edition from S&S and HMH, September 2012.
24 July 2012
Matthew Spencer’s Great American Novelist Tournament
24 July 2012
“This one goes up to eleven ,” by William Alexander.
23 July 2012
The Frontier Fandango, Mexico/California
Every year people meet at the edge of the ocean, on the two sides of the fence between the two countries, to sing, play, and dance the music of Vera Cruz called “son jarocho.” My daughter Elisabeth has been learning this music, and this year she took a video camera to the Fandango. The fence is so high and now so thick that the people can barely see one another, but the music and love and grief and longing come through, loud and clear.
“The Video ...” by Elisabeth Le Guin
22 July 2012
Kesh Music sampler — New link.
20 July 2012
28 June 2012
Some Guidelines for Manuscript Preparation and Submission (updated)
19 June 2012
Le Guin’s Hypothesis , at the blog of UKL.
18 June 2012
Beneath the Surface with Michael Slate , audio interview with UKL about her work in general and Voices 13 June 2012
LatheReviews
Three reviews of The Lathe of Heaven 11 June 2012
Sci-Fi Scribes on Ray Bradbury: ‘Storyteller, Showman and Alchemist’ at Wired.
“My mother and I read and loved The Martian Chronicles in the early ’50s, when it was new. It was newer than new, because there’d never been anything quite like it, nor has there been since. SF is so often a control freak’s genre, and Ray Bradbury was never under control — his own or anybody else’s. He took risks in his writing that could send him over into incoherence and sentimentality or take him straight to beauty, which is always new and always rare. And then with Fahrenheit 451 he gave us the rarest thing of all: a genuine, inescapable Myth for Our Time. His was a courageous heart and a generous soul. May his memory be blessed.”
— UKL
8 June 2012
The Forrests by Emily Perkins7 June 2012
Writer’s Rights , by Mauricio Niebla, National Writers Union.
7 June 2012
In loving honor of Doc Watson, musician, 1923 - May 29, 2012. The circle is unbroken.
30 May 2012
Grants Pass Update: Tickets & more information , 1 June 2012
25 May 2012
Flying Squirrel #17: Science Fiction Fans Cannot Sneer at Fantasy Fans Ever Again
25 May 2012
Grand Masters of Science Fiction: Ursula K. Le Guin: Rocannon’s World , by Charles Dee Mitchell.
23 May 2012
Some Recent Fantasies , at the blog of UKL.
21 May 2012
I am proud to be used as a shield The Dispossessed, as symbols of their cause but also as protection from police.” San Francisco Chronicle ,
20 May 2012
Flying Squirrel #16: Hunts, Shoots, and Leaves
19 May 2012
The Unreal and the Real: Where on Earth 18 May 2012
51. The Narrative Gift as a Moral Conundrum , at the blog of UKL.
14 May 2012
Schedule Update: Grant’s Pass , 1 June 2012
14 May 2012
Read This: James Hansen has been trying since 1980 to show us that we have destabilized the global climate, that we’re heading ever faster into catastrophe, and that denial is no longer an option. He must feel like somebody in a trawler trying to hail the captain of the Titanic. Read his op-ed piece in the New York Times: “Game Over for the Climate ”
11 May 2012
Flying Squirrel #15: A New Entry in The Newspeak Dictionary
11 May 2012
Flying Squirrel #14: Alma Mater (insert Brand Name here), Hail to Thee!
6 May 2012
50. Chosen by a Cat , at the blog of UKL.
30 April 2012
UTC61 Presents The Lathe of Heaven , Opening 6/10/2012.
25 April 2012
Flying Squirrel #13: Reaction Before Action
23 April 2012
Poets.org’s Poem of the Day: The Maenads , from Finding My Elegy 22 April 2012
Like it is: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Finding My Elegy: New and Selected Poetry , a review by David St.-Lascaux
19 April 2012
Celebrate Diana Wynne Jones
19 April 2012
Reading, Seeing (i) , at the blog of UKL.
16 April 2012
Mark W Tiedemann of Missouri Center for the Book interviews UKL
14 April 2012
Schedule update: Oregon Book Awards Poetry Reading , 22 April 2012
9 April 2012
Having my Cake , at the blog of UKL.
9 April 2012
Alachua County Big Read : A Wizard of Earthsea .
8 April 2012
Ursula Le Guin’s SF-Fantasy and the Environmental Paradigm Shift . Scholar Tonia Payne discusses how fiction, specifically Le Guin, can work for a paradigm change. Video3 April 2012
Primitive Copy-rites of Ancient Peoples , at the blog of UKL.
2 April 2012
Flying Squirrel #12: Why Everyone is Moving from New York, New Orleans, and Los Angeles...
1 April 2012
“Contraception ,” by Vonda N. McIntyre, at Book View Café Blog.
31 March 2012
Flying Squirrel #11: A Piece of Work
30 March 2012
A Writer Speaks Out , by Winston Ross, Eugene Register-Guard. UKL at “Big Read” in Eugene, OR.
[Note from webmistress: The library estimated the crowd at 600.]
28 March 2012
Schedule update : March 24, 2012, Eugene Public Library , Big Read: reading, signing, Q&A.
20 March 2012
Interview with KLCC , Eugene, Oregon, NPR [MP3]
20 March 2012
The Cove by Ron Rash18 March 2012
“Literature as a way of seeing ,” by Helon Habila
14 March 2012
More information: Paradises Lost chamber opera.
12 March 2012
Google Goggles , at the blog of UKL.
5 March 2012
People I don’t want to hear any more about , a blog by UKL
20 February 2012
Excerpt from Paradises Lost : the world premiere of scenes from a chamber opera by Steven Taylor, based on the novella by UKL, performed by Third Angle New Music ensemble in Portland in January 2012. [33Mb MP3]
15 February 2012
World Premiere of Paradises Lost , a chamber opera, based on the novella by UKL, at the University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill. April 26, 27, 28, 29, 2012.
14 February 2012
.Good Intentions Meet the Double-Hyphen Dilemma
9 February 2012
43. Fear and Loathing in e-Land , at the blog of UKL.
6 February 2012
The Buddha in the Attic, by Julie OtsukaThe Guardian.
28 January 2012
Schedule update : Poetry Reading: Ursula Le Guin, Molly Gloss, Noel Hanlon, and More! at Annie Bloom’s Books, 16 February 2012
28 January 2012
Charlotte’s Library reviews Lavinia
24 January 2012
Flying Squirrel #9: Media CEO English .
22 January 2012
A Fine Chapbook: Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Wild Girls Plus... , by Brit Mandelo at tor.com
19 January 2012
Out Here Stafford/Hall Award in Poetry .
11 January 2012
42. Choosing a Cat , a2 blog by UKL.
8 January 2012
Schedule update : George Fox University: 14 January 2012; Reed College: 20 January 2012.
6 January 2012
Richard D. Erlich’s Coyote’s Song 5 January 2012
Changing Planes in Tokyo!Changing Planes : “Porridge on Islac,” “Wake Island,” “Seasons of the Ansarac” and “The Nna Mmoy Language” (in order of performance).
2 January 2012
Flying Squirrel 8 : In Abraham Lincoln’s Home Town
29 December 2011
Literary Bests , at the blog of UKL.
28 December 2011
Hearing Voices at Third Angle:
World premiere of Paradises Lost, a chamber opera by Stephen Taylor, based on the novella by UKL.
22 December 2011
Flying Squirrel 7 : You Go, Snowe!!!
12 December 2011
Flying Squirrel 6 : Wouldn’t it be loverly
10 December 2011
“Mr Pish and the Horse Chestnut,” by UKL, Wild in the City: Exploring the Intertwine: The Portland-Vancouver
Region’s Network of Parks, Trails, and Natural Areas ,4 December 2011
Tears of Joy Theatre Presents
Ride the Red Mare . Adapted and directed by Nancy Aldritch
from A Ride on the Red Mare’s Back Meet the author, Ursula K Le Guin, on opening night, December 16, 2011: Guest appearance and ticket holder signing.
More information .
2 December 2011
Five Bad Myths , at the blog of UKL.
28 November 2011
Flying Squirrel 5 : Your Father’s Rover
27 November 2011
Ninety-Nine Weeks: A Fairy Tale , at the blog of UKL.
21 November 2011
Flying Squirrel 4: From The New Republican Dictionary
19 November 2011
Two essays: “Penn State, Happy Valley, & the Good Citizens of Omelas ,” by Michelle Richmond, and “Omelas State University ,” by John Scalzi
18 November 2011
Long-Term Discouragement , at the blog of UKL.
5 November 2011
Flying Squirrel: Creeping Socialism in Ohio
4 November 2011
Letter to the Oregonian , October 29, 2011
31 October 2011
A useful key to the can of worms: This piece by Maria Bustillos is full
of up-to-date information on digitalization/Google Book
Settlement/orphan books/copyright issues. I’m happy to have contributed
a couple of opinions to it. — UKL
One Google Books to Rule Them All? by Maria Bustillos
26 October 2011
A Small Update from What I Have Been Able to Observe , at OccupyWriters
26 October 2011
Slumping Texas Governor...
26 October 2011
Review of Changing Planes , by Sarah Frost. Escape Pod.
26 October 2011
Notre-Dame de la Faim , at the blog of UKL.
24 October 2011
Flying Squirrel #1 , a new feature
22 October 2011
The Center for Fiction celebrates A Wizard of Earthsea
22 October 2011
Did Ursula Le Guin Change the Course of SFF? , by Ryan Britt. tor.com
21 October 2011
Only in Silence the Word: Ursula Le Guin’s The Farthest Shore , by Jo Walton. tor.com
21 October 2011
How I was arrested at Occupy Wall Street , by Naomi Wolf. The Guardian
21 October 2011
The Coode Street Podcast: Episode 71: Live with Gary K. Wolfe and Ursula K. Le Guin! Discussion and digression on science fiction and fantasy with Gary Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan. Subject: Margaret Atwood’s new book of essays, In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination .
17 October 2011
Readers’ Questions , at the blog of UKL.
17 October 2011
Map of Gont , from the Slovenian translation of Tehanu . Mapmaker: Pavle Učakar.
14 October 2011
Let Her be Eaten!: Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Tombs of Atuan , by Jo Walton, tor.com
14 October 2011
Schedule Update : Powell’s Authorfest, Wild Arts Festival
14 October 2011
Wordstock brings poets and publishers to the people , by Jeff Baker, The Oregonian.
10 October 2011
Wordstock: Interview at The Ace Hotel ; Best Bets for Sunday, October 9 .
8 October 2011
35. More About Steinbeck: Troubled Waters , at the blog of UKL.
8 October 2011
“Peace Vigil ,” a poem by UKL, at On the Issues Magazine .
6 October 2011
34. TGAN and TGOW , at the blog of UKL.
3 October 2011
The Islanders by Christopher Priest , a review by UKL at The Guardian.
3 October 2011
A Review of Voices , by nominatissima
3 October 2011
Margaret Atwood is Center for Fiction sci-fi keynoter
3 October 2011
Corrected Schedule : Wy’East Books, Wordstock, Wildwords, Wild Arts Festival,
30 September 2011
A new interview with UKL , at Read More Missouri.
30 September 2011
“The Island of the Immortals ,"” a short story by UKL at Lightspeed Magazine
30 September 2011
“Ursula K. Le Guin has a brand new reason to be scared of immortality ,” by Charlie Jane Anders, io9.
30 September 2011
“The Wild Girls” in Harper’s Magazine , a review by Zadie Smith, at PMPress.
30 September 2011
Clinging Desperately to a Metaphor , at the blog of UKL.
19 September 2011
Dangerous Writing, Dangerous Cover Copy , at the blog of UKL.
12 September 2011
CBC Radio podcast with UKL , conducted by Eleanor Wachtel
2 September 2011
“Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea ,” by Kristine Marie Reynaldo
30 August 2011
“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas ,” by UKL, translated into Arabic by Mona Elnamoury.
24 August 2011
Papa H , at the blog of UKL.
18 August 2011
“The Crown of Laurel ” — Set by Christopher M. Wicks to a poem
by Ursula K. Le Guin.
26 July 2011
Riffing Again , at the blog of UKL.
21 July 2011
Without Egg , at the blog of UKL.
18 July 2011
A review of The Other Wind , at The Green Man Review.
29 June 2011
It Doesn’t Have To Be the Way It Is , at the blog of UKL.
29 June 2011
Exercises , at the blog of UKL.
24 June 2011
National Writers Union on The Huffington Post . [PDF ] “In the short-term, we are trying to win a settlement for the hundreds of journalists who
contributed their work for free in order to bring more traffic to this “progressive” blog.”
16 June 2011
Book View Café reprints UKL review of Vonda N. McIntyre’s Dreamsnake from The Cascadia Subduction Zone , Vol. 1, No. 2.
16 June 2011
Checking the Gender Balance, by Cheryl Morgan. Guest blog at SFWA website.
13 June 2011
Against Eisenhower , at the blog of UKL.
13 June 2011
Schedule Update : SFWA Pacific Northwest Reading Series, Portland, OR, June 7, 2011
6 June 2011
Petty Expectations , blog #25 by UKL.
6 June 2011
Traducida al inglés una selección de la obra poética de Gabriela Mistral , by Lydia Gil Denver, a review in Spanish of Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral .
2 June 2011
Perfectly Herself: A discussion of the work of Carol Emshwiller , with Ursula K. Le Guin, Helen Merrick, Pat Murphy, and Gary K. Wolfe, conducted by Niall Harrison, at Strange Horizons
31 May 2011
To Save Free Enterprise, Books Must Die , blog #24 by UKL.
26 May 2011
The Middle of What , at the blog of UKL.
25 May 2011
First Contact , a blog by UKL
18 May 2011
Riding the Avalanche , an essay by UKL at Northwest Book Lovers
18 May 2011
The Prose, Poetry, and Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin , by Alison Hallett, the Portland Mercury . A review of The Wild Girls.
17 May 2011
UKL contributes to “The stars of modern SF pick the best science fiction ” at The Guardian.
“For this article on sf books in the Guardian , I agreed to write about a
book or writer that inspired or influenced my writing. I thought it
would be useful and refreshing to write about a writer not usually
thought of as having written fantasy or sf, who taught me a great deal
about writing them. But the headline calls it ‘Best SF,’ which isn’t,
I think, really what any of us was asked to write about.”
— UKL
15 May 2011
Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Wild Girls , a review by Paul Buhle at swans.com
15 May 2011
Charles Le Guin’s Mint Julep Recipe
6 May 2011
Podcast: UKL reads “City of the Plain ,” from The Wild Girls 2 May 2011
Book View Café features UKL: King Dog, The Wild Girls, Supermouse!
2 May 2011
Bookmarks: Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Wild Girls , by Jeff Baker, The Oregonian.
1 May 2011
Schedule Update : Powell’s City of Books, Portland, OR, May 12, 2011, 7:30 p.m.
30 April 2011
Review by UKL of When the Killing’s Done, by TC Boyle, at The Guardian.
22 April 2011
Beige , at the blog of UKL.
22 April 2011
UKL reviews Vonda N. McIntyre’s Dreamsnake in The Cascadia Subduction Zone , Vol. 1, No. 2, April 2011. [Quotes at Book View Cafe Blog.]
21 April 2011
Schedule Update: Windfall poetry reading , Portland, OR, June
20 April 2011
The Painful Slow Process of Creating Utopia , guest blog by Mona Elnamoury
11 April 2011
Unfacts Concerning the Google (Un)Settlement, Part 2 , at the blog of UKL.
5 April 2011
Inaccurate, incomplete, probably unjust, but
highly entertaining: History of SF cephalopod diagram , by Ward Shelley
5 April 2011
Unfacts Concerning the Google (Un)Settlement , at the blog of UKL.
28 March 2011
The Google Books (Un)Settlement
25 March 2011
Cheering People Dying , by Andrew C White, at Daily Kos
20 March 2011
SFWA Pacific Northwest Reading Series , Portland, OR, with Nancy Kress, Ted Chiang, and Ursula K. Le Guin. 7 June 2011 (please check site for time & place).
20 March 2011
A Wizard of Earthsea , review by Anita Silvey, Children’s Book-A-Day Almanac.
16 March 2011
Update to “To my Readers in Japan“ — Japanese translation at http://r2fish.cocolog-nifty.com/1day1book/2011/03/post-d47e.html
16 March 2011
To my Readers in Japan , a blog by UKL
14 March 2011
Would You Please Fucking Stop , at the blog of UKL.
9 March 2011
Glimpses: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Searoad , by Jo Walton at tor.com.
8 March 2011
Women’s History Month: Ursula K. Le Guin , at Feminists for Choice.
6 March 2011
The Center of Warmth in Tahrir Square , A Blog Guest Post by Mona Elnamoury
3 March 2011
Imprint 2001 : Antanas Sileika interviews science fiction icon Ursula K Le Guin.
27 February 2011
Uniforms , at the blog of UKL.
26 February 2011
CANCELLED by snow alert: West Linn (OR) Public Library ,
Wednesday, February 23, 2011, 6.30-7.30, reading and discussion with audience of A Wizard of Earthsea . This appearance has been rescheduled to Wednesday, 16 March 2011.
23 February 2011
Afterword to my Egypt Blog
21 February 2011
The Field of Vision , a movie based on the short story by UKL, directed by Siri Rodnes.
21 February 2011
The Wild Girls , now available from PM Press .
20 February 2011
Schedule update : UKL & co-author Roger Dorband in Seattle, Out Here 10 February 2011
Egypt , a blog by UKL
9 February 2011
Review of Gedo Senki by Toronto J-Film Pow-Wow.
7 February 2011
Monsieur Pain , by Roberto Bolaño. Reviewed by UKL. The Guardian.
3 February 2011
UKL Interview on BBC World Service . 29-31 January 2011. Podcast to follow.
27 January 2011
The Eloquent Woman discuses UKL’s “left-handed commencement address ” at Famous Speech Friday.
27 January 2011
Schedule update: West Linn (OR) Public Library ,
Wednesday, February 23, 2011, 6.30-7.30, reading and discussion with audience of A Wizard of Earthsea .
27 January 2011
The Horsies Upstairs , a blog by UKL
26 January 2011
A Riff on the Harper Contract , a blog by UKL
18 January 2011
The Tree , at the blog of UKL.
5 January 2011
On Prospero’s Island , at the blog of UKL.
3 January 2011
“The Silence of the Asonu ,” at Lightspeed Magazine.
1 January 2011
Confidential reports... , at the blog of UKL.
20 December 2010
“The Pleasures of Reading, Viewing, and Listening in 2010 ,” at Ambling along the Aqueduct
12 December 2010
“Journalism Is Not an Attack, Wikileaks Is Not Warfare ,” by Josh Mull. Huffington Post, 10 December 2010.
10 December 2010
The Sissy Strikes Back , at the blog of UKL.
9 December 2010
Schedule Update : Oregon Humanities Holiday Fete, 20 December 2010.
9 December 2010
Photos by Richard Jensen
5 December 2010
Followup, December 2010: Notice to Fans and Correspondents
5 December 2010
Ursula K. Le Guin’s Journey to Post-Feminism ,Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy #18 ), Macfarland &
Co,
PS3562.E42Z594, 2010.
Lavinia ,4 December 2010
Schedule Update: Seattle appearance tentatively rescheduled for Friday, 25
February 2011, 7:00 p.m.
4 December 2010
Rebroadcast, 7 December 2010, 11:00 a.m.: Oregon Treasures : Stage and Studio’s Dmae Roberts interviews UKL.
4 December 2010
A Band of Brothers, a Stream of Sisters , at the blog of UKL.
2 December 2010
“More to Potter fans than funny outfits ,” by Robert Patten, Rexburg Standard Journal.
21 November 2010
Exorcists , at the blog of UKL.
14 November 2010
Schedule Update: Seattle appearance cancelled.
9 November 2010
Someone Named Delores , at the blog of UKL.
9 November 2010
Audio now online: Oregon Treasures : Stage and Studio’s Dmae Roberts interviews UKL.
2 November 2010
Oregon Treasures : Stage and Studio’s Dmae Roberts interviews UKL, KBOO 90.7 FM , 2 November 2010, 11:00 a.m.
1 November 2010
Absent Silence , at the blog of UKL.
27 October 2010
Steering the Craft Review26 October 2010
Miners and iPods , at the blog of UKL.
24 October 2010
A Note at the Beginning , at the blog of UKL.
21 October 2010
In Your Spare Time , at the blog of UKL.
21 October 2010
Out Here reviewThe Oregonian, October 16, 2010.
17 October 2010
Schedule Update
14 October 2010
“
Fiddling with Le Guin: Making New Connections with Science Fiction’s Anthropologist ,” Samuel Gerald Collins.
Science Fiction Studies #109 — Volume 36, Part 3 = November 2009. (This review takes an unusually well-informed and
perceptive look at my work and ideas, especially at where the ideas come
from. — UKL.)
13 October 2010
“Margaret Atwood, Ursula K. Le Guin bring off-the-wall humor to Portland Arts & Lectures ,” by Jeff Baker, The Oregonian.
25 September 2010
“In England in the Fifties,” a new poem, in Breaking Waves 18 September 2010
A Cannon Beach Crow Album .18 September 2010
80! Memories & Reflections on Ursula K. Le Guin , a festschrift in honor of Ursula’s 80th birthday, edited by Karen Joy Fowler and Debbie Notkin. On sale soon from Aqueduct Press.
18 September 2010
Notice to Fans and Correspondents, September 2010
continued... ]
18 September 2010
Sweet Deal
17 September 2010
The Earthsea Cycle , reviewed by Christopher DeFilippis
2 September 2010
Schedule update : Out Here signings; Arts & Letters.
30 August 2010
The Elephant’s Journey , by Jose Saramago, reviewed by UKL.
19 August 2010
Interview d’Ursula K. Le Guin , conducted by Bernard Henninger (in French), 6 July 2010
4 August 2010
Sur les raisons de ne pas lire de science-fiction , preface, Pêcheur de la mer Intérieure (in French), Traduction: Anne-Judith DESCOMBEY.
4 August 2010
“Art, Information, Theft, and Confusion, Part 1 ” & “Art, Information, Theft, and Confusion, Part 2 ”
1 August 2010
Ghost Light , by Joseph O’Connor, reviewed by UKL at The Guardian
22 July 2010
Out Here: Poems and Images from Steens Mountain Country 17 July 2010
“L. Timmel Duchamp and Her Excellent Aqueduct Press Celebrate Reaching the 50-Book Mark, ” by Jeff VanderMeer, at Shelfari. “Among the sharpest, smartest independent presses out there...”
8 July 2010
Update on Google Books Settlement:
“Google Books case still a run-on sentence ,”
by Tom Krazit, CNET news.
5 July 2010
“What did Avatar learn from Ursula Le Guin? ” Times of London (available by subscription only)
5 July 2010
Cheek by Jowl Locus Award
26 June 2010
“Heading home with author Ursula K. Le Guin ,” by Watt Childress. Vancouver (B.C.) Observer .
21 June 2010
Cheek by Jowl :20 June 2010
Schedule Update : Locus Awards, Seattle, WA, 25-27 June 2010
15 June 2010
A picture that shows exactly what we have done in
the Gulf of Mexico.
And a chance to join Move On’s drive to end
America's addiction to oil.
10 June 2010
The Left Hand of Darkness nominated for China’s Sky Award for Most Popular Translated Fiction
27 May 2010
New photo: UKL at Portland State , photo courtesy Moira McAuliffe / GobQ LLC.
25 May 2010
Great North West Books: An Appeal for Phil’s Fund . Photo by John Henley22 May 2010
22-23 May 2010: Ooligan Press presents Oolicon: Write to Publish Conference 2010 . UKL appears on The Author Stage 20 May 2010
UKL on Think Out Loud , Oregon Public Radio. Interview by Emily Harris. 30 April 2010
Other Sites to See: “I’m tired of being the token woman ,” by Bidisha, at The Guardian.
30 April 2010
Schedule Update : Cannon Beach, 8 May 2010.
22 April 2010
Cheek by Jowl Locus Award Finalist
22 April 2010
Talley Dreams — Photo by Michael Bentley
3 April 2010
“A Ride on the Red Mare’s Back ,” [23Mb MP3] [More information ]
29 March 2010
From Steam Engine Time
At one level, Le Guin is a practising cultural
anthropologist who just happens to use fiction to
express her theories. At another level she’s a
storyteller who focuses on the tales told by
individuals — often mundane, often fragmentary,
and the anthropological elements are just aspects
of people’s lives. At yet another level, she
explores what fiction is and why it does what it
does. And at another level she entertains.
— Steam Engine Time 11
Schedule Update : Mt. St. Helens
20 March 2010
“What’s in a name? A lot, when it comes to fantasy ,” by Imogen Russell Williams, The Guardian
17 March 2010
Review: Ursula Le Guin’s Lavinia , by danhartland
13 March 2010
“Art, Information, Theft, and Confusion, Part 1 ”
11 March 2010
Beau Dreams . Photo by Melody Ivins
9 March 2010
Science Blogs interviews UKL , Claire L. Evans, Universe.
4 March 2010
Wizard of Earthsea shadow puppets , by Andrew Benincasa
4 March 2010
“Author Ursula K. Le Guin shares thoughts on book ,” Jake Bolitho, mlive.com
28 February 2010
“Northwest Writers at Work: Ursula K. Le Guin is 80 and taking on Google ,” Jeff Baker, The Oregonian. 28 February 2010
“Will The Google Settlement Leave Ursula Le Guin Dispossessed? ” at IO9.
24 February 2010
Matthew Peterson interviews UKL for The Author Hour . Audio, transcript, and bonus questions. 23 February 2010
“Thousands of authors opt out of Google book settlement ,” The Guardian.
23 February 2010
“Why the Technology Sector Should Care About Google Books ,” by Gary Reback. TechCrunch, Feb 16, 2010.
17 February 2010
“Hidden Sky” Interview with UKL
16 February 2010
Off the Coastal Path ,15 February 2010
Conversation with UKL at PBS News Hour, with Jeffrey Brown. 12 February 2010
Prospect Theater presents “The Hidden Sky,” a musical based on “The Masters” by UKL. New York City, Jan. 30 - Feb. 28, 2010. Special price tickets: $15.00 or at Prospect Theater using code LEGUIN. (212-352-3101)
11 February 2010
Schedule update : Winter Fishtrap
11 February 2010
Stay in the Action: NWU
11 February 2010
Anarchists on the Moon : Review of The Dispossessed by The Instant Librarian.
11 February 2010
Department of Justice : Despite Substantial Progress Made,
Issues Remain
6 February 2010
What’s Wrong with
the Google Settlement — a Letter from a Writer , by Paulina Borsook.
5 February 2010
Theatermania reviews “The Hidden Sky ,” a musical based on “The Masters” by UKL. New York City, Jan. 30 - Feb. 28, 2010.
5 February 2010
“Fantasy Island: Ursula Le Guin Remakes the World ,” by Meredith Tax. The Village Voice, Oct. 30, 1990.
1 February 2010
Parrot and Olivier in America, by Peter CareyThe Guardian.
1 February 2010
Lavinia is on the
BSFA Shortlist
31 January 2010
Video: Ursula K. Le Guin & Margeret Killjoy , Anarchist Writers on Fiction. Sample at Youtube.
28 January 2010
Petition Letter to the Judge of the Google Book Settlement .
25 January 2010
“Ursula Le Guin gathers writers against Google deal ,” CBC News.
23 January 2010
Author List update: Petition Letter to the Judge of the Google Book Settlement. .
23 January 2010
The Guardian and Huffington Post on UKL Google Settlement letter.
23 January 2010
Author List update: Petition Letter to the Judge of the Google Book Settlement. .
21 January 2010
Mediabistro reports on UKL Google Settlement letter.
21 January 2010
Petition Letter to the Judge of the Google Book Settlement. .
17 January 2010
West Coast Meeting on Google Settlement
12 January 2010
Canadian Writers Oppose Google: Globe and Mail Sarah Sheard’s blog .
11 January 2010
Workshop on the Google Settlement , 20 January 2010, New York City. Sponsored by ASJA, SFWA, NWU.
11 January 2010
“The Hidden Sky ,” a musical based on “The Masters” by UKL. New York City, Jan. 30 - Feb. 28, 2010.
9 January 2010
Updates, comments, and more info on the Google Settlement and UKL’s Authors Guild resignation letter: The Guardian ; PR Newswire .
7 January 2010
Schedule update : Third Angle Music, Portland
4 January 2010
Mark Barrett comments on UKL’s AG resignation
3 January 2010
Review, The True Deceiver, by Tove Jansson, first published in The Guardian.
28 December 2009
Notes & comments: My letter of resignation from the Authors Guild
22 December 2009
Notes & comments: Clif Kroeber’s Five-Point Plan for Peace and Security
21 December 2009
UKL reviews True Deceiver The Guardian.
— UKL
16 December 2009
Matthew Peterson interviews UKL for The Author Hour . Audio, transcript, and bonus questions. 12 November 2009
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching , new Shambhala edition of translation by UKL.
Includes Two CDs
11 November 2009
New Lavinia review .
10 November 2009
Book review by UKL: The Post Office Girl , by Stefan Zweig. Literary Review 2009
5 November 2009
Lavinia is on the long list for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award .
4 November 2009
An exhibition of works by Russian artists from St Petersburg inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin
23 October 2009
New Lavinia review : “One of the master fabulists of our time...”
22 October 2009
Thank you for the birthday wishes:
MANY THANKS to the many kind people who have been
wishing me a happy birthday! I should like to
quote Mr Bilbo Baggins on the occasion of his
eleventy-first:
“I am immensely fond of you all,
and eleventy-one years is too short a time to live
among such excellent and admirable hobbits. I
don't know half of you as well as I should like,
and I like less than half of you half as well as
you deserve.”
To which I add:
May you all live to your heart's desire, and have
fireworks by Gandalf on your birthday.
Love,
21 October 2009
BBC Radio 7 celebrates UKL’s 80th birthday with her story “Diary of the Rose .” Read by Laurel Lefkow.
18 October 2009
Dream for Jeanne (Robinson) benefit auction" A Winter Solstice Ritual from the Pacific Northwest ,6 October 2009
Schedule Update : FFRF event nearly sold out.
30 September 2009
The Left Hand of Darkness: 25 September 2009
“Prolonging Death at the End of Life ,” by Theresa Brown, R.N. NYTimes Blog, 9 September 2009.
19 September 2009
A Book of Silence, by Sara Maitland, reviewed by Ursula K. Le Guin. Literary Review 2009.
16 September 2009
Mythmakers and Lawbreakers: Anarchist Writers on Fiction , ed. Margaret Killjoy. Includes interview with UKL.
1 September 2009
UKL eBooks at Book View Cafe: King Dog Supermouse!
28 August 2009
Lavinia’s Voice , at A Subtle Knife.
11 August 2009
Notes & comments: About Literary Bests
30 July 2009
First Contact: A Talk with Ursula K. Le Guin , at The New Yorker Book Club.
25 July 2009
Elizabeth Hand reviews Cheek by Jowl , F&SF, August 2009.
24 July 2009
Schedule Update
24 July 2009
Short Biographical Note
22 July 2009
“On Rules of Writing, or, Riffing on Rechy ”
16 July 2009
New Lavinia reviews .
14 July 2009
The Australian reviews Lavinia :
“Expanding on Virgil ” — George Williams
10 July 2009
William Alexander of Rain Taxi reviews Cheek by Jowl 9 July 2009
Lord Dunsany: In the Land of Time and Other Fantasy Tales, LA Times Book Review, 2004.
6 July 2009
Supermouse! comics at Book View Cafe: New every Thursday. All 13 episodes of Supermouse! are available as PDFs for a total price of $4.99.
2 July 2009
Locus Award for Lavinia
27 June 2009
Think & Drink, Oregon Council for the Humanities. UKL and Lani Roberts.
[Part I ]
[Part II ]
[Photo ]
22 June 2009
“Her achievement is to complement the original
epic so distinctively, as if in a dialogue or
dance with the poet who inspired her.” — John Garth, The Telegraph , reviews Lavinia .
“A fantasist who lives in the real world ” — Tobias Hill reviews Lavinia for The Guardian.
15 June 2009
“Into the cosmos with Qfwfq ” — UKL reviews The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino.
15 June 2009
Supermouse! comics at Book View Cafe: New every Thursday.
12 June 2009
UKL reviews Enchanted Hunters , by Maria Tatar, for the LA Times .
12 June 2009
The Left Hand of Darkness — Gethen Map by Milan Dubnicky
7 June 2009
Excerpts from Times Literary Supplement review of Lavinia, by Diana Birch, 22 May 2009.
31 May 2009
“To my Overseas Readers ”
31 May 2009
UKL comics at Book View Cafe: “Supermouse I”
28 May 2009
BBC Radio 3 interviews UKL on Night Waves . Audio available for one week.
28 May 2009
BBC Radio Three interviews UKL on Night Waves , 26 May 2008, 21:15 British Summer Time. Audio available for one week thereafter.
24 May 2009
“The princess with flaming hair ” — Charlotte Higgins reviews Lavinia for The Guardian.
23 May 2009
“ Long-Time Science Fiction Writer Shines at Ottawa festival
,” Joyce MacPhee, Epoch Times.
23 May 2009
“How Ursula K. Le Guin led a generation away from realism ,” Scott Timberg, Guardian on line
21 May 2009
“...a perfectly balanced blend of feeling, metre and storytelling...” Review of Lavinia by Guy Haley, Death Ray . [complete review ] [240Kb PDF ]
15 May 2009
“Cat T’ai Chi ” at Book View Cafe
13 May 2009
“An Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin ,” by Lev Grossman, Time, 11 May 2009
11 May 2009
Scott Timberg’s Blog
11 May 2009
“Ursula K. Le Guin’s lasting appeal ,” Scott Timberg, LA Times blogs.
10 May 2009
“Ursula K. Le Guin’s work still resonates with readers ,” Scott Timberg, LA Times.
10 May 2009
Notes & Comments: “Calling Utopia a Utopia ”
6 May 2009
“Guesswork & Archaeology & Virgil ” — video, courtesy Ron Hogan.
1 May 2009
Powers wins SFWA’s Nebula Award for Best Novel!
25 April 2009
Now available on UKL’s website: China Miéville interviews UKL about her life and work for BBC Radio 4, 17 March 2009.
24 April 2009
Cheek by Jowl: Tales & Essays on How & Why Fantasy Matters is now available from Aqueduct Press . [more information ]
16 April 2009
Schedule update
14 April 2009
Cat Dreams More information ]
7 April 2009
About Writing #12: What Freelance Writers Get Paid and How
3 April 2009
Fantasy Book Review notes that UKL will appear at the Ottawa International Writers Festival (22 April-2 May 2009)
2 April 2009
China Miéville interviewed UKL about her life and work for BBC Radio 4, 17 March 2009. (No longer available on line.)
7 Mar 2009
“Spaceship of fools ” — UKL reviews Journey into Space, by Toby Litt, for the Guardian .
4 Mar 2009
Nebula Award nomination for Powers , Best Novel 2008.1 Mar 2009
Poem: “The Palindromedary ”
20 February 2009
Oregon State Library has chosen The Lathe of Heaven, Searoad, and The World Begins Here (ed. Glen A. Love, including “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”) for its “150 Books for Oregon’s Sesquicentennial ” [1.6Mb PDF]
14 February 2009
“On David Hensel’s Submission to the Royal Academy of Art ”
11 February 2009
Erica Jong and the Space Crone
11 February 2009
Video: UKL’s Timberland Reads Together . Courtesy of TCTV (Thurston County cable tv) & Timberland Library, Olympia, WA
5 February 2009
Lavinia , audio download, narrated By Alyssa Bresnahan. Unabridged.
4 February 2009
29 January 2009: Schedule update
29 January 2009
Powers Preliminary Ballot
19 January 2009
Steve Lafreniere Interviews Ursula K. Le Guin at Vice magazine.
9 January 2009
A Mask of the Dragon Yevaud, by Ilyana Mansfield
1 January 2009
Paradisi Perduti
