Folks I have discovered a gaping, Ursula K Le Guin-shaped hole in my education.
Oh won’t you compile me, please, a very short (ich habe keine Zeit) reading list that a) is a good in-road, b) covers the breadth of her different genres and c) her politics, major thought-structures, topics, preoccupations.
@kai @gem “The Space Crone” is such a good essay.
On the menopause: “Anyhow it seems a pity to have a built-in rite of passage and to dodge it, evade it, and pretend nothing has changed. That is to dodge and evade one’s womanhood, to pretend one’s like a man. Men, once initiated, never get the second chance. They never change again. That’s their loss, not ours. Why borrow poverty?”
Kai Bernau
Piper Haywood