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.
@piper @kai Yes! Totally second that, I think Dancing at the Edge of the World is her best collection of essays and gives a lot of insight into her politics / philosophy and how they evolved over the years.
If you only read two of her essays, make it The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction and A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be (http://teias.org/tal/en/u/uk/ursula-k-le-guin-a-non-euclidean-view-of-california-as-a-cold-place-to-be.html).
Carrier Bag Music is a new series of sonic fictions inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin’s Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction. Reimagining the mixtape as container, medicine bundle and chronometer telling the time on another world, artists and producers explore Le Guin's articulations of holding, gathering and caring. With Laurel
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