Page 107: Excerpt from “The Operating Instructions,” from Words Are My Matter: Writing About Life & Books, 2000–2016, by Ursula K. Le Guin. Copyright © 2016, Small Beer Press.
Page 112–113: Excerpt from “The Beast in the Book,” from Words Are My Matter: Writing About Life & Books, 2000–2016, by Ursula K. Le Guin. Copyright © 2016, Small Beer Press.
Page 120–122: Excerpt from “Disappearing Grandmothers,” from Words Are My Matter: Writing About Life & Books, 2000–2016, by Ursula K. Le Guin. Copyright © 2016, Small Beer Press.
Page 135–137: Excerpt from “On Serious Literature,” from Words Are My Matter: Writing About Life & Books, 2000–2016, by Ursula K. Le Guin. Copyright © 2016, Small Beer Press.
Copyright
Copyright © 2018 Ursula K. Le Guin and David Naimon
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, contact Tin House Books, 2617 NW Thurman St., Portland, OR 97210.
Published by Tin House Books, Portland, Oregon, and Brooklyn, New York
Distributed by W. W. Norton & Company
Names: Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018 author, interviewee. | Naimon, David, author, interviewer.
Title: Ursula K. Le Guin : conversations on writing / [Ursula K. Le Guin] with David Naimon.
Description: First U.S. edition. | Portland, OR : Tin House Books, 2018.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018003429 | ISBN 9781941040997 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781947793002 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929—Interviews. | Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929—Authorship. | Women authors, American—20th century—Biography. | Authors, American—20th century—Interviews. | Science fiction—Authorship. | Fantasy fiction—Authorship. | Authorship. | Literature. | United States—Civilization. Classification: LCC PS3562.E42 Z46 2018 | DDC 813/.54 [B]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018003429
First US Edition 2018
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