Ursula Le Guin

The Last Interview: And Other Conversations

Ursula Le Guin, David Streitfeld

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Melville House Publishing
05 February 2019

Literary studies: poetry & poets

When she began writing in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin was as much of a literary outsider as one can be- she was a woman writing in a landscape dominated by men, she wrote genre at a time where it was dismissed as non-literary, and she lived out West, far from fashionable east coast literary circles. The interviews collected here--covering everything from her Berkeley childhood to her process of world-building; from her earliest experiments with genre to envisioning the end of capitalism--highlight that unique perspective, which conjured some of the most prescient and lasting books in modern literature.

""Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.""

-Ursula K. Le Guin

When she began writing in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin was as much of a literary outsider as one can be- a woman writing in a landscape dominated by men, a science fiction and fantasy author in an era that dismissed ""genre"" literature as unserious, and a westerner living far from fashionable East Coast publishing circles. The interviews collected here-spanning a remarkable forty years of productivity, and covering everything from her Berkeley childhood to Le Guin envisioning the end of capitalism-highlight that unique perspective, which conjured some of the most prescient and lasting books in modern literature.

By: Ursula Le Guin
Edited by: David Streitfeld
Imprint: Melville House Publishing
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm,
ISBN: 9781612197791
ISBN 10: 1612197795
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 05 February 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (1929-2018) was born in Berkeley, California and lived in Portland, Oregon. She published more than twenty novels, eleven volumes of short stories, six collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation. David Streitfeld is the editor of The Last Interview books on Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Philip K. Dick, J.D. Slinger, and Hunter S. Thompson. He is a reporter for The New York Times, where in 2013 he was part of the team awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his family and too many books.

Reviews for Ursula Le Guin: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations

I'll miss her. Literature will miss her. There's no one like her. -Zadie Smith She was one of the giants. A gifted storyteller, dedicated to her art, she influenced a whole generation of writers who came after her, including me. -George R. R. Martin We can't call Ursula K. Le Guin back from the land of the unchanging stars, but happily she left us her multifaceted work, her hard-earned wisdom and her fundamental optimism. Her sane, smart, crafty, and lyrical voice is more necessary now than ever. -Margaret Atwood I learn more from her books at every stage of life than from any other writer: she bears rereading well. -Neil Gaiman