Plus: an auction in support of a more diverse publishing workforce, a YA anthology to fight book bans, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-06-11 15:00:00 UTC ]
Every author wants to write a book like David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas. Two decades after it first hit the shelves, the author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow celebrates its daring, dazzling appealPity the writer who believes they have written the next Cloud Atlas! A literary agent once... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-04-06 10:00:31 UTC ]
In this week’s Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle reviews John Plotz’s personal reading of a fantasy classic by Ursula K. Le Guin The American author Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) is widely regarded as one of the finest authors of what is broadly termed ‘speculative fiction’.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2023-10-13 14:00:53 UTC ]
Originally, The Lathe of Heaven appeared in two installments in Amazing Stories, a pulp magazine started in 1926 by Hugo Gernsback. Ursula Le Guin, born in 1929, read Amazing Stories as a child and would go on to outlive almost all the science fiction pulp magazines. While many of the writers... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-01-31 09:53:42 UTC ]
Ursula K. Le Guin was a highly influential and prolific writer of science fiction and fantasy with an interesting upbringing. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-09-07 10:38:00 UTC ]
A late baby-boomer, I spent my tweens and adolescence in the 1970s under the Tolkien-woven spell of heroic fantasy, immersed in the imagined worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea trilogy (1968-72), Patricia A. McKillip’s Riddlemaster trilogy (1976-79), and Evangeline Walton’s Welsh-myth-remix... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-01-26 09:55:39 UTC ]
Today, on what would have been Ursula K. Le Guin’s 92nd birthday, the Ursula K. Le Guin Literary Trust announced a new annual prize in honor of the beloved writer: the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be awarded for the first time in 2022 and come with a $25,000 cash prize. […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-10-21 13:30:29 UTC ]
At the London Review of Books, Colin Burrow reflects on how Ursula K. Le Guin‘s narrative prowess flourished within the constraints of science fiction and children’s literature. “Fiction needs the unruly energies of indeterminacy,” Burrow writes, “of being partly inside the mind of the reader,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2021-01-20 21:30:12 UTC ]
Sci-fi anthology stalled since 1974 will be produced by executor, screenwriter J Michael Straczynski, adding stories by today’s big-name SF writersIt is the great white whale of science fiction: an anthology of stories by some of the genre’s greatest names, collected in the early 1970s by Harlan... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-11-16 14:38:59 UTC ]
Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea novels, Christopher Priest’s “The Islanders” and more Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-05-04 14:00:00 UTC ]
THE FUTURE OF THE PAST is not good business, or so might a science fiction fan conclude when they survey a typical American bookstore. You’ll find few titles more than 40 years old on the shelves, and those present are usually by Ursula K. Le Guin, Frank Herbert, Philip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov, or... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-08-03 19:00:30 UTC ]
Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney has the #1 book in the country – again – with ‘The Meltdown.’ Plus musicians tell their stories in two new titles, and Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Cycle gets an illustrated omnibus. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-11-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
PEN's revamped awards ceremony, replete with jazz combo and an Oscars-style "In Memoriam" video, was held at New York University on February 20. Layli Long Soldier, Jenny Zhang, and the late Ursula K. Le Guin were among the winners. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Malcolm Gladwell and Ursula K. Le Guin, are among those supporting the Authors Guild’s bid to have the Supreme Court review its case against Google. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
SF grand dame Ursula K Le Guin, writes, 'Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.' The post Ursula K. Le Guin Urges Amazon Book Buying Boycott appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Neil Gaiman will present the medal to Le Guin at the 65th National Book Awards ceremony on November 19, in New York City. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
When Noel Young launched Santa Barbara–based Capra Press in 1969 and began to publish a literary who’s who of writers that included Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller, Raymond Carver, Lawrence Durrell, and Ursula K. Le Guin it was a vibrant time for independent bookstores and small presses, the beginning... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]