Writers Wanted

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“Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We’ll need writers who can remember freedom — poets, visionaries — realists of a larger reality.”

—Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018), the visionary and literary fantasy writer died this week at 88. “Ursula K. Le Guin's speech at National Book Awards: 'Books aren't just commodities’,” The Guardian, 2014.

 

• Editorial Comment: Let’s remember to look beyond the horizon, and “wander working magic from isle to isle.”
• NYTimes obit.
• “Don’t know where to start? The essential novels of Ursula K. Le Guin,” The Guardian, Jan. 23, 2018.
• “Ursula K Le Guin, by Margaret Atwood: ‘One of the literary greats of the 20th century’,” The Guardian, Jan. 23, 2018.
 

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