I love the essays she writes about life, writing and her philosophical insights into what it is to be human.

I love the essays she writes about life, writing and her philosophical insights into what it is to be human.  Read Less

LeGuin writes sublimely & has a caustic wit. She tolerates no fools, as her pithy reviews of literature reveal. On the subjects...  Read More

LeGuin writes sublimely & has a caustic wit. She tolerates no fools, as her pithy reviews of literature reveal. On the subjects of feminism and writing, you'd have to go a long way to beat her. Her life's journey from Berkeley to Portland is captured here, showing how important to the nation is the Western woman's intellect. This original thinker, sci-fi writer, & unapologetic humanist needs many successors!  Read Less

Dancing at the End of the World - Ursula K. Le Guin [2014-03-10 513] Dancing at the End of the World (1989) is a collection of...  Read More

Dancing at the End of the World - Ursula K. Le Guin [2014-03-10 513] Dancing at the End of the World (1989) is a collection of essays, talks, reviews and some travel notes by the highly esteemed author Ursula K. Le Guin. For many years I have greatly admired her novels particularly The Lathe of Heaven. I am cautiously optimistic that by reading non-fiction books by authors I hold in high esteem I may become more nuanced in my appreciation of their fiction. I sought out this book because I had reviewed the table of contents on the ISFDB (Internet Science Fiction Data Base) and I greatly desired to read a couple of items - a book review of a C.S. Lewis collection and an essay titled Where Do you Get Your Ideas From. Both readings were informative but the essay was of particularly interest. To summarize ideas flow up from the subconscious and are an amalgamation of life experiences. I surveyed the book from cover to cover sampling a page or two from each entry. To be honest, with one exception, and the two pieces noted I passed on the other writings. The unexpected gem of this book for this reader was a diary like essay about Ms. LeGuin's experiences during filming of her novel The Lathe of Heaven - note the 1980 version! Very interesting and informative indeed to this reader since I was not previously aware it had be make into a movie and as it turns out twice - but that's another story altogether.  Read Less