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With 'No Time to Spare,' Ursula K. Le Guin strikes at the heart of a changing world

Thinking About What Matters" by Ursula K. Le Guin this month. We conclude this month's reading with Le Guin's blog posts ...
Portland Mercury

Seeing Ursula K. Le Guin’s Many Sides

Ursula K. Le Guin isn’t a typical exhibition. Ursula Kroeber Le Guin wasn’t a typical artist. Curated by her son, Theo Downes ...
PBS

A previously unpublished Ursula K. Le Guin poem and how her poetry captures “the voice of the soul”

Over dinner a few months ago with some musician and writer friends outside of Portland, a conversation about songwriting turned into a conversation about poetry, which led me to ask two of the writers ...
Slate

Ursula K. Le Guin and the Three Obstacles

Ursula K. Le Guin’s long journey to the status of literary titan is not quite complete, despite the author’s death on Monday at the age of 88. It will take the world a little while yet to reckon with ...
Wall Street Journal

‘Five Novels’ Review: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Universe Within

In the highest reaches of the starry pantheon of science fiction and fantasy resides Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018), master of many literary genres and forms: short stories, essays, speeches, ...
Bustle

The Badass Writer You Need to Fall In Love With

On September 9, Ursula K. Le Guin received the National Book Awards 2014 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, which is a huge, major, unbelievably big deal. Past recipients for ...
Yahoo

RIP Ursula K. Le Guin, dreamer of the best dreams

Ursula K. Le Guin, who was arguably America's greatest living author (and one who hated getting pigeon-holed as a science-fiction or fantasy writer), died Monday at the age of 88, her son has ...
PBS

Ursula K. Le Guin Was a Creator of Worlds

Originally published as “Ursula K. Le Guin Was a Creator of Worlds” in the Winter 2019 issue of Humanities magazine, a publication of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Places, real and ...
OPB

Ursula K. Le Guin imagined a larger reality, a new prize for fiction seeks to honor her legacy

Update: Khadija Abdalla Bajaber was named winner of the inaugural Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for “The House of Rust” on Friday night. “Scene after scene is gleaming, textured, utterly devoid ...
Los Angeles Times

Ursula K. Le Guin will receive National Book Foundation award

Science fiction-fantasy legend Ursula K. Le Guin will be awarded the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the group announced Tuesday. Le Guin, 84, will ...
Publishers Weekly

Ursula K. Le Guin Dies at 88

Ursula K. Le Guin, one of the most prolific and influential writers of the latter half of the 20th Century, died at her home in Portland, Ore., on Monday, following several months of poor health. She ...