Ursula Le Guin has found herself sitting comfortably in a place of honour amongst some of the most distinguished authors of all time. The University Press of Mississippi is publishing Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin, adding to a distinguished series that in the past has featured Ernest Hemingway, Gore Vidal, Isaac Asimov, Jack Kerouac, John Steinbeck, Salman Rushdie and William S. Burroughs.
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Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin, edited by Carl Freedman, assembles interviews with the legendary science-fiction and fantasy author of the Earthsea sequence of novels and stories. For almost five decades, Ursula Le Guin has enjoyed immense success in science fiction and fantasy. In Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin Le Guin takes every interview not as an opportunity to recapitulate long-held views but as an occasion for in-depth intellectual discourse.
In interviews spanning over twenty-five years of her literary career, including a previously unpublished piece conducted by the volume’s editor, Le Guin talks about such diverse subjects as U.S. foreign policy, the history of architecture, the place of women and feminist consciousness in American literature, and the differences between science fiction and fantasy.
Carl Freedman is professor of English at Louisiana State University.
Ursula Le Guin is a firm favourite at FantasyBookReview.co.uk with The Earthsea Quartet, The Other Wind and Tales From Earthsea being amongst the highest rated books on the site.