Vince is back with our #WeeklyPicks! 📚

Featuring ✨

Nash Falls by #DavidBaldacci
The Name of the Rose by #UmbertoEco
First-Time Caller by #BKBorison
The Tower by #FloraCarr
The Apocalypse is a Side Quest by #LiamLawless
We Used to Live Here by #MarcusKliewer
Wayfarer by #PhoebeSmith
A Wizard of Earthsea by #UrsulaKLeGuin

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The Sci-Fi Novelist Who Disappeared for Decades

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-sci-fi-novelist-who-disappeared-for-decades

In den letzten Jahren ist es um #ComicBookGirl19 aka #DannikaIXX etwas ruhig geworden. Sie werkelt schon seit einiger Zeit an einer großen »Akira«-Doku. Freu mich also, den Morgen mit ihrem frischen Buch-Plausch zu #UrsulaKLeGuin|s »The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia« (1974; Dt. »Freie Geister.« von Karen Nölle für @fischertor.bsky.social, 2017) verbringen zu können. Bissi technisches G’schiss am Anfang.

https://www.youtube.com/live/h6R9WAX1G_c

Ursula K. Le Guin on Suffering and Getting to the Other Side of Pain

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/29/ursula-k-le-guin-the-dispossessed-suffering/

"I think hard times are coming, when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies, to other ways of being. And even imagine some real grounds for hope. We will need writers who can remember freedom."

“Resistance and change often begin in #art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”

- Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018)

https://www.ursulakleguin.com/biography

#UrsulaKLeGuin #poet #writer

CW for spoiler. A recent conversation on here led me to reread Ursula K. Leguin's novelette The Women Men Don't See, which anticipated the man/bear encounter question by many years with extraterrestrial creatures instead of bears, but the moral is the same.

#UrsulaKLeguin #TheWomenMenDontSee #BearOrMan

Telling Is Listening: Ursula K. Le Guin on the Magic of Real Human Conversation

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/25/telling-is-listening-ursula-k-le-guin-communication/