The Resource Words are my matter : writings about life and books, 2000-2016 with a journal of a writer's week, Ursula K. Le Guin
Words are my matter : writings about life and books, 2000-2016 with a journal of a writer's week, Ursula K. Le Guin
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The item Words are my matter : writings about life and books, 2000-2016 with a journal of a writer's week, Ursula K. Le Guin represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College.
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- Summary
- This collection of Ursula K. Le Guin's recent talks, essays, introductions is the best manual we have for exploring the worlds explored in recent fiction; the most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- iv, 316 pages
- Contents
-
- How to read a poem: "Gray goose and gander"
- On David Hensel's submission to the Royal Academy of Art
- On serious literature
- Teasing myself out of thought
- Living in a work of art
- Staying awake
- Great nature's second course
- What women know
- Disappearing grandmothers
- Learning to write science fiction from Virginia Woolf
- Foreword. -- Talks, essays, and occasional pieces:
- The death of the book
- Le Guin's hypothesis
- Making up stories
- Freedom
- Book introductions and notes on writers:
- A very good American novel : H.L. Davis's Honey in the Horn
- Philip K. Dick : The Man in the High Castle
- Huxley's bad trip
- Stanislaw Lem: Solaris
- George MacDonald : The Princess and the Goblin
- The operating instructions
- The wild winds of possibility : Vonda McIntyre's Dreamsnake
- Getting it right : Charles L. McNichols's Crazy Weather
- On Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago
- Examples of dignity : thoughts on the works of José Saramago
- Arkady and Boris Strugatsky : Roadside Picnic
- Jack Vance : The Languages of Pao
- H.G. Wells : The First Men in the Moon
- H.G. Wells : The Time Machine
- Wells's worlds.
- Book reviews:
- What it was like
- Margaret Atwood : Moral Disorder
- Margaret Atwood : The Year of the Flood
- Margaret Atwood : Stone Mattress
- J.G. Ballard : Kingdom Come
- Roberto Bolaño : Monsieur Pain
- T.C. Boyle : When the Killing's Done
- Geraldine Brooks : People of the Book
- Italo Calvino : The Complete Cosmicomics
- Margaret Drabble : The Sea Lady
- Carol Emshwiller : Ledoyt
- Genre: a word only a Frenchman could love
- Alan Garner : Boneland
- Kent Haruf : Benediction
- Kent Haruf : Our Souls at Night
- Tove Jansson : The True Deceiver
- Barbara Kingsolver : Flight Behavior
- Chang-Rae Lee : On Such a Full Sea
- Doris Lessing : The Cleft
- Donna Leon : Suffer the Little Children
- Yann Martel : The High Mountains of Portugal
- China Miéville : Embassytown
- "Things not actually present"
- China Miéville : Three Moments of an Explosion
- David Mitchell : The Bone Clocks
- Jan Morris : Hav
- Julie Otsuka : The Buddha in the Attic
- Salman Rushdie : The Enchantress of Florence
- Salman Rushdie : Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights
- José Saramago : Raised from the Ground
- José Saramago : Skylight
- Sylvia Townsend Warne r: Dorset Stories
- Jo Walton : Among Others
- A response, by ansible, from Tau Ceti
- Jeanette Winterson : The Stone Gods
- Stefan Zweig : The Post Office Girl.
- The hope of rabbits : a journal of a writer's week
- The beast in the book
- Inventing languages
- Isbn
- 9781618731340
- Label
- Words are my matter : writings about life and books, 2000-2016 with a journal of a writer's week
- Title
- Words are my matter
- Title remainder
- writings about life and books, 2000-2016 with a journal of a writer's week
- Statement of responsibility
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This collection of Ursula K. Le Guin's recent talks, essays, introductions is the best manual we have for exploring the worlds explored in recent fiction; the most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1929-2018
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Le Guin, Ursula K.
- Dewey number
- 818/.5409
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3562.E42
- LC item number
- A6 2016b
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- American essays
- Fiction
- Authorship
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- American essays
- Literatur
- Schriftsteller
- Label
- Words are my matter : writings about life and books, 2000-2016 with a journal of a writer's week, Ursula K. Le Guin
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- How to read a poem: "Gray goose and gander"
- On David Hensel's submission to the Royal Academy of Art
- On serious literature
- Teasing myself out of thought
- Living in a work of art
- Staying awake
- Great nature's second course
- What women know
- Disappearing grandmothers
- Learning to write science fiction from Virginia Woolf
- Foreword. -- Talks, essays, and occasional pieces:
- The death of the book
- Le Guin's hypothesis
- Making up stories
- Freedom
- Book introductions and notes on writers:
- A very good American novel : H.L. Davis's Honey in the Horn
- Philip K. Dick : The Man in the High Castle
- Huxley's bad trip
- Stanislaw Lem: Solaris
- George MacDonald : The Princess and the Goblin
- The operating instructions
- The wild winds of possibility : Vonda McIntyre's Dreamsnake
- Getting it right : Charles L. McNichols's Crazy Weather
- On Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago
- Examples of dignity : thoughts on the works of José Saramago
- Arkady and Boris Strugatsky : Roadside Picnic
- Jack Vance : The Languages of Pao
- H.G. Wells : The First Men in the Moon
- H.G. Wells : The Time Machine
- Wells's worlds.
- Book reviews:
- What it was like
- Margaret Atwood : Moral Disorder
- Margaret Atwood : The Year of the Flood
- Margaret Atwood : Stone Mattress
- J.G. Ballard : Kingdom Come
- Roberto Bolaño : Monsieur Pain
- T.C. Boyle : When the Killing's Done
- Geraldine Brooks : People of the Book
- Italo Calvino : The Complete Cosmicomics
- Margaret Drabble : The Sea Lady
- Carol Emshwiller : Ledoyt
- Genre: a word only a Frenchman could love
- Alan Garner : Boneland
- Kent Haruf : Benediction
- Kent Haruf : Our Souls at Night
- Tove Jansson : The True Deceiver
- Barbara Kingsolver : Flight Behavior
- Chang-Rae Lee : On Such a Full Sea
- Doris Lessing : The Cleft
- Donna Leon : Suffer the Little Children
- Yann Martel : The High Mountains of Portugal
- China Miéville : Embassytown
- "Things not actually present"
- China Miéville : Three Moments of an Explosion
- David Mitchell : The Bone Clocks
- Jan Morris : Hav
- Julie Otsuka : The Buddha in the Attic
- Salman Rushdie : The Enchantress of Florence
- Salman Rushdie : Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights
- José Saramago : Raised from the Ground
- José Saramago : Skylight
- Sylvia Townsend Warne r: Dorset Stories
- Jo Walton : Among Others
- A response, by ansible, from Tau Ceti
- Jeanette Winterson : The Stone Gods
- Stefan Zweig : The Post Office Girl.
- The hope of rabbits : a journal of a writer's week
- The beast in the book
- Inventing languages
- Control code
- ocn954719930
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- iv, 316 pages
- Isbn
- 9781618731340
- Lccn
- 2016029895
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40026553198
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9781618731340
- (OCoLC)954719930
- Label
- Words are my matter : writings about life and books, 2000-2016 with a journal of a writer's week, Ursula K. Le Guin
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- How to read a poem: "Gray goose and gander"
- On David Hensel's submission to the Royal Academy of Art
- On serious literature
- Teasing myself out of thought
- Living in a work of art
- Staying awake
- Great nature's second course
- What women know
- Disappearing grandmothers
- Learning to write science fiction from Virginia Woolf
- Foreword. -- Talks, essays, and occasional pieces:
- The death of the book
- Le Guin's hypothesis
- Making up stories
- Freedom
- Book introductions and notes on writers:
- A very good American novel : H.L. Davis's Honey in the Horn
- Philip K. Dick : The Man in the High Castle
- Huxley's bad trip
- Stanislaw Lem: Solaris
- George MacDonald : The Princess and the Goblin
- The operating instructions
- The wild winds of possibility : Vonda McIntyre's Dreamsnake
- Getting it right : Charles L. McNichols's Crazy Weather
- On Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago
- Examples of dignity : thoughts on the works of José Saramago
- Arkady and Boris Strugatsky : Roadside Picnic
- Jack Vance : The Languages of Pao
- H.G. Wells : The First Men in the Moon
- H.G. Wells : The Time Machine
- Wells's worlds.
- Book reviews:
- What it was like
- Margaret Atwood : Moral Disorder
- Margaret Atwood : The Year of the Flood
- Margaret Atwood : Stone Mattress
- J.G. Ballard : Kingdom Come
- Roberto Bolaño : Monsieur Pain
- T.C. Boyle : When the Killing's Done
- Geraldine Brooks : People of the Book
- Italo Calvino : The Complete Cosmicomics
- Margaret Drabble : The Sea Lady
- Carol Emshwiller : Ledoyt
- Genre: a word only a Frenchman could love
- Alan Garner : Boneland
- Kent Haruf : Benediction
- Kent Haruf : Our Souls at Night
- Tove Jansson : The True Deceiver
- Barbara Kingsolver : Flight Behavior
- Chang-Rae Lee : On Such a Full Sea
- Doris Lessing : The Cleft
- Donna Leon : Suffer the Little Children
- Yann Martel : The High Mountains of Portugal
- China Miéville : Embassytown
- "Things not actually present"
- China Miéville : Three Moments of an Explosion
- David Mitchell : The Bone Clocks
- Jan Morris : Hav
- Julie Otsuka : The Buddha in the Attic
- Salman Rushdie : The Enchantress of Florence
- Salman Rushdie : Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights
- José Saramago : Raised from the Ground
- José Saramago : Skylight
- Sylvia Townsend Warne r: Dorset Stories
- Jo Walton : Among Others
- A response, by ansible, from Tau Ceti
- Jeanette Winterson : The Stone Gods
- Stefan Zweig : The Post Office Girl.
- The hope of rabbits : a journal of a writer's week
- The beast in the book
- Inventing languages
- Control code
- ocn954719930
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- iv, 316 pages
- Isbn
- 9781618731340
- Lccn
- 2016029895
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40026553198
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9781618731340
- (OCoLC)954719930
Subject
- American essays
- Authorship
- Bibel, Ester
- Book reviews
- Book reviews
- Essays
- Essays
- Fiction -- History and criticism
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Speeches
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Books & Reading
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Short Stories
- Literatur
- Schriftsteller
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays
- American essays
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