More Le Guin About Writing and Books

A short documentary as an introduction:

I guess finding a dialog between Ursula K. Le Guin and Margaret Atwood funny, educational, and a general delight may say much about my mentality. You decide:

I am learning how much fun it is to listen to Le Guin - humorous and intelligent. She even got me listening to her talk about the forms of poetry.

It was good to hear Bill Moyers talking as well as Le Guin, good advice for writers and insights for readers:

Ursula K. Le Guin : Steering The Craft

 Crafting with Ursula : Lidia Yuknavitch : The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

Okay, not a video with Le Guin, but a video discussing Le Guin's The Dispossessed. I find The Feral Historian provocative and thoughtful and just worth watching.

One last video: These Two Writing Exercises Changed How I Write – From Ursula K. Le Guin

 

 The more I hear Ms. Le Guin speak, the more I like her. She has a sensible voice. About writing, she has thought long and deep about the craft, and I cringe when I hear her described as a science fiction writer. She is a writer. 

And do not think that I am so dismissive of science fiction. What I consider the best - Robert Heinlein's A Stranger in a Strange Land, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress; William Gibson's oeuvre; Cixin Liu's Three-Body Problem - are novels of ideas and social novels. 

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