Certainly I would love to read her rebuttal of the notion. Is it sentimental to speculate that she is sweeping her little corner of life tidy? Odds, ends, floating thoughts on Steinbeck, curse words and cats - the larger forces within her spent, but her mind still alive with things to say? Maybe. In the last few years Le Guin has published little or no new fiction or poetry, but has put out a book of collected novellas, an updated edition of her admirable writing guide (“Steering the Craft”), and now two compendiums of shorter texts in as many years. The backdrop that made the quotidian details of that book so poignant was cancer, and here it is mortality. Your mileage may vary on the Pard etudes, depending on how passionately you feel about cats nevertheless, the combination of light and heavy subjects works just right, giving the book something of the texture of Alan Bennett’s wonderful “Untold Stories.” Once and Future Podcast Ursula K Le Guin’s strong female voice challenged the norms of a male-dominated genre Published: Janu11.13am EST Want to write Write an article and join a. There’s a meditation on the best way to eat a soft-boiled egg - tap it neatly, or decapitate it with a whack? - and a great many about Le Guin’s trouble-making cat, Pard. Mixed in with the serious moments are a lot of purely playful ones (all of these essays originated as blog posts, and have the fleet tone of that genre).
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