Winner of the the 2018 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay Winner of the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Related Work The collected best of Ursula’s blog, No Time to Spare presents perfectly crystallized dispatches on what mattered to her late in life, her concerns with the world, and her wonder at it: “How rich we are in knowledge, and in all that lies around us yet to learn. In her last great frontier of life, old age, she explored a new literary territory: the blog, a forum where she shined. Le Guin took readers to imaginary worlds for decades. On breakfast: “Eating an egg from the shell takes not only practice, but resolution, even courage, possibly willingness to commit crime.” On cultural perceptions of fantasy: “The direction of escape is toward freedom. Le Guin on the absurdity of denying your age: “If I’m ninety and believe I’m forty-five, I’m headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub.”
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