How do you make a writer’s work and life come alive on the walls of an art gallery? Manuscripts, mugs of coffee, laptop computers with crumbs stuck in the keys—none of these is particularly visually ...
Installation view of The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London (all images © Elena Andreea ...
Ursula K Le Guin, the prominent author known for her science fiction and fantasy novels, in particular A Wizard of Earthsea and The Left Hand of Darkness, had a very particular creative process as she ...
When I’m asked by a Le Guin neophyte where to start, I rarely recommend The Dispossessed. I wouldn’t urge a stranger to leap into the deep end of a pool. Though the novel delicately explores matters ...
Ursula Le Guin wrote about fellow fantasy author JK Rowling, “The only thing that rankles me is her apparent reluctance to admit that she ever learned anything from other writers.” I didn't originate ...
For several years, a quote from famed writer Ursula Le Guin has made the rounds on tumblr and Reddit, in which she appears to criticize fellow writer JK Rowling. Rowling's "Harry Potter" book series, ...
Ursula K. Le Guin's Greco-Roman mythical retelling from 2008, way before these kinds of novels became "cool" and everyone started writing them. Lavinia tells the story of, well, Lavinia, a character ...
Theo Downes-Le Guin, son of the late author Ursula K. Le Guin, remembers well the second-floor room where his mother worked on some of her most famous novels. Or at least how it seemed from the ...
Ursula K. Le Guin’s house will be preserved as the home base for a residency. (Courtesy of Literary Arts) Ursula K. Le Guin’s writing corner, to be preserved for future cohorts of residents. (Courtesy ...