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Ursula K Le Guin: Conversations on Writing returns this fall in a gorgeous refreshed edition. You can pre-order it here: zandoprojects.com/books/ursula-k…
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podcasts:Between the Covers, Crafting with Ursula
book: Ursula K Le Guin: Conversations on Writing
writing:@pushcartprize @BestSmFictions @Orion_Magazine
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- he wrote: "the pure perfume between the open thighs of a book"Good lord leave the kid who wrote the cormac McCarthy piece alone. At least he was trying something w the prose I swear this site ensures we will be reading the most boring polite unambitious sentences for the rest of our lives.
- Arundhati Roy: “The trouble is that once you see it, you can’t unsee it. And once you’ve seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There’s no innocence. Either way, you’re accountable.”
- “We who are not there, witnessing from afar, in what ways are we mutilating ourselves when we dissociate to cope? To remain human at this juncture is to remain in agony. Let us remain there: it is the more honest place from which to speak.”Isabella Hammad's 2023 Edward Said memorial lecture was about narrative turning points. But after Oct 7th she had her own turning point & wrote an afterword that reorients herself to her own speech. We discuss both today Audio📻: tinhouse.com/podcast/isabel… @PalFest @PenguinUKBooks
- "They'll say we are disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war."--Howard Zinn
- We're seeing just how far Palestinians are from being considered human in the Western imaginary. Israel can say—in advance & in detail—the war crimes it aims to commit against a captive population of 2 million(50% of whom are children) & the "civilized" world says how can we help
- written twenty years ago: "oh rafah. aching rafah. children of rafah exploded. children of rafah deafened: deafened to tank wheels. deafened to explosions gunshot music shocking claps drones." --from Rachel Corrie's journal
- Ursula's agent was asked if the Le Guin family wanted donations sent. Ursula's son responded that the non-profit closest to Ursula's heart is the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. If people are moved to donate in Ursula's memory this would be the place: malheurfieldstation.com/support
- “This was not an ‘error’; this was a hate crime. You don’t shoot a child in the head because he rang your doorbell. The fact that the police said it was an ‘error’ is why America is the way it is,” said Dr. Faith Spoonmore, the aunt of Ralph Yarl.A family in Kansas City is demanding answers after a white man shot their Black child in the head when he accidentally rang the doorbell of the wrong home, and then shot him again The man was taken to police station to make a statement and then released kansascitydefender.com/justice/kansas…
- With the arrival of Dionne Brand's landmark book Nomenclature: New & Collected Poems, Dionne joins me to look back across her life & work as a poet. What an honor it was to spend these hours together. Audio📻: tinhouse.com/podcast/dionne…
- Isabella Hammad's 2023 Edward Said memorial lecture was about narrative turning points. But after Oct 7th she had her own turning point & wrote an afterword that reorients herself to her own speech. We discuss both today Audio📻: tinhouse.com/podcast/isabel… @PalFest @PenguinUKBooks
