Join Ursula K. Le Guinas 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.
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.”
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