The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Join Ursula K. Le Guin as she explores a broad array of subjects, ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to women's shoes, beauty, and family life. With her customary wit, intelligence, and literary craftsmanship, she offers a diverse and highly engaging set of readings. The Wave in the Mind includes some of Le Guin's finest literary criticism, rare autobiographical writings, performance art pieces, and, most centrally, her reflections on the arts of writing and reading.

• ISBN10: 1590300068
• ISBN13: 9781590300060
• Publish Date: 17 February 2004
• Publish Status: Active
• Out of Print: 8 May 2015
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Shambhala Publications Inc
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 336
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9781590300060

Reviews

[jamiereadthis]

The essays, and the whole, are just fantastic. This is a writer who gets it. The fact that every book you open has the power to change your life.

“We force the world to be coherent— to tell us a story. Not only fiction writers do this; we all do it; we do it constantly, continually, in order to survive. People who can’t make the world into a story go mad.”