No time to spare: thinking about what matters. Introduction by Karen Joy Fowler

Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018

Published by Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017

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very good dust-jacket, cover price $22.00, very good black and white hardcover. LE GUIN, URSULA K. No time to spare: thinking about what matters. Introduction by Karen Joy Fowler. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017, later printing number line 7, xx, 215pp., . "From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, a collection of thoughts--always adroit, often acerbic--on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation" - CONTENTS: Introduction / by Karen Joy Fowler -- A note at the beginning -- Part one. Going over eighty. In your spare time ; The sissy strikes back ; The diminished thing ; Catching up, ha ha -- The Annals of Pard. Choosing a cat ; Chosen by a cat -- Part two. The lit biz. Would you please fucking stop? ; Readers' questions ; Kids' letters ; Having my cake ; Papa H ; A much-needed literary award ; TGAN and TGOW ; TGAN again ; The narrative gift as a moral conundrum ; It doesn't have to be the way it is ; Utopiyin, utopiyang -- The Annals of Pard. The trouble ; Pard and the time machine -- Part three. Trying to make sense of it. A band of brothers, a stream of sisters ; Exorcists ; Uniforms ; Clinging desperately to a metaphor ; Lying it all away ; The inner child and the nude politician ; A modest proposal: vegempathy ; Belief in belief ; About anger -- The Annals of Pard. An unfinished education ; An unfinished education, continued ; Doggerel for my cat -- Part four. Rewards. The circling stars, the sea surrounding: Philip Glass and John Luther Adams ; Rehearsal ; Someone named Delores ; Without egg ; Notre-Dame de la Faim ; The tree ; The horsies upstairs ; First contact ; The lynx ; Notes from a week at a ranch in the Oregon high desert. ISBN 9781328661593.

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• Title: No time to spare: thinking about what matters. Introduction by Karen Joy Fowler
• Publisher: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included