Ursula K. Le Guin believes we cannot restructure society without restructuring the English language, and thus her book on the craft of writing inevitably engages class, gender, race, capitalism and morality, all of which are not separate from grammar, punctuation, tense, and point of view for Le Guin. Ursula K. Le Guin is the author of more than sixty books of fiction, fantasy, children’s literature, poetry, drama, criticism and translation. She talks today about her writing guide, Steering The Craft, newly rewritten and revised for writers of fiction and memoir in the 21st century.
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Brilliant. Caught this interview being broadcast (by chance) and was absolutely enthralled. Now I’m rifling through older podcasts and wishing their were transcripts so I could read them all!
Bart, so glad you liked it. There actually are transcripts for some of the episodes published in various magazines. If you go to the following link and scroll down to the bottom you can find out which ones: http://davidnaimon.tumblr.com/writing
thanks for listening! David
Got it. Thanks, David!
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I love what she says about imitating other authors. Yay!!
Marvelous interview, David. Thank you so much for all of your brilliant work on BTC!
Ended on a good note about what we do and don’t know about opening opportunities. A comfortable and sparky interview!
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Brilliant. Thank you. I’m so happy to have found you podcasts.
Ursula K Le Guin has been an inspiration to my own writing.
thanks Ashen. mine as well!