Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing

 

I’ve been gradually reading this little book and finally finished it. Le Guin is a fascinating writer, and this is a series of interviews with her. She certainly is thoughtful. Naimon as an interviewer wasn’t my favorite, he was sometimes fawning and sometimes arrogant. But I can forgive all that because he goes through the trouble to bring to light so many different and intriguing sides of such an important writer.

Some of the things that stuck with me from this:

• Ursula K. LeGuin and Philip K. Dick went to the same high school at the same time, but didn’t know each other.
• Lao Tzu wrote the Tao Te Ching while being exiled from China. (UKL wrote a translation that is on my shelf - maybe I’ll read that soon)
• Mistral sounds like a fascinating poet. UKL translated much of her work to English.
• I should probably read To The Lighthouse.