Consolidated List of Announcements, Recent Information, Website Additions, & Schedule Updates
In order of date posted to ursulakleguin.com
- “Fantasy Tale Trendsetter” — Timberland Reads Together, by Molly Gilmore, The Daily Olympian.
9 October 2008
- “Well-known sci-fi, fantasy author to speak at library
,” by Callie White, The Daily World.
8 October 2008
- Timberland Library "Big Read" PSAs: 30 second [700Kb MP3] 60 second [1.4Mb MP3] Courtesy of KAOS radio.
6 October 2008
- Walking in Cornwall, Poetry by UKL. Reprinted by Crescent Moon
3 October 2008
- Locus magazine includes an interview with UKL and “Yesterday’s Tomorrows,” reviews by Graham Sleight of classic Le Guin novels.
3 October 2008
- Schedule update: Wild Arts Festival, Portland
30 September 2008
- Audiofile of UKL's Lavinia reading at the Corvallis-Benton County Library MP3 [24Mb]
24 September 2008
- Q&A with author Ursula K. Le Guin, conducted by Theresa Hogue for the Corvallis Gazette-Times, 12 September 2008.
15 September 2008
- Some Books I Liked: Graphic Novels
17 August 2008
- “The story of Us and Them” — UKL reviews A to X, by John Berger, at The Guardian.
15 August 2008
- Powers is a finalist for the 2008
Endeavour Award.
12 August 2008
- Schedule update: UKL at Corvallis-Benton County Library, Friday, 19 September, 2008.
28 July 2008
- Always Coming Home a Book of Honor for Potlatch 18.
27 July 2008
- “Between the Covers”: Jim Schumock interviews UKL for KBOO radio. Streaming audio.
23 July 2008
- 9:00 a.m. (PDT) 22 July 2008: “Between the Covers”: Jim Schumock interviews UKL. Listen live at the KBOO website or check here later for a link to the streaming audio.
14 July 2008
- Photographers — Have you taken a good picture of Ursula at one of her public events?
12 July 2008
- “A Left-Handed Commencement Address,” Mills College 1983
12 July 2008
- Site reorganization.
12 July 2008
- Interview in Das Science Fiction Jahr 2008, ed. Sascha Mamczak (in German). Heyne Verlag 2008
12 July 2008
- Schedule Update: Manzanita Writer’s Series
30 June 2008
- Schedule update: NEA “Big Read” (Timberland Library, Olympia, WA); Cannon Beach (OR) Library.
28 June 2008
- NEA “Big Read”: A Wizard of Earthsea at Timberland Library (WA). The Daily Olympian. [UKL Calendar info]
28 June 2008
- “One man and his dog” — UKL reviews The Lost Dog, by Michelle de Kretser, at The Guardian.
18 June 2008
- Schedule Update: Rakestraw Books, 23 June 2008
15 June 2008
- “Sing Muse, of the woman unsung” — Review and interview at The Inkwell Review.
15 June 2008
- Judith Arcana’s Grace Paley’s Life Stories
12 June 2008
- “Pain, Betrayal and Love in Old Russia” — UKL speaks about Doctor Zhivago on “You Must Read This,” All Things Considered, NPR radio, 6 June 2008.
6 June 2008
Choire Sicha
- reviews Lavinia for The New York Observer.
6 June 2008
- In the Blast Zone: Catastrophe and Renewal on Mount St. Helens, ed. Charles Goodrich, Kathleen Dean Moore, and Frederick J. Swanson, is now available from Powell’s Books.
“Le Guin's essay is memorable not only for its eloquence and perspective...” — Jeff Baker, The Oregonian. [complete review]
OSU Press, May 2008.
30 May 2008
- List of Major Titles — Updated 5/2008 [Printer-friendly PDF, 96Kb]
29 May 2008
- “Ursula K. Le Guin, True Original” — Rick Simonson reports on UKL’s Lavinia reading at Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle, for PW.
29 May 2008
- Schedule Update
27 May 2008
- “...a highly readable, wise, contemporary novel....” Clay Evans reviews Lavinia for Daily Camera, Boulder, CO
26 May 2008
- Schedule Update
25 May 2008
- “Lavinia is a magnificent book,
an intellectual, moral and emotional
achievement...” Cecelia Holland reviews Lavinia for Locus [complete review]
20 May 2008
- Schedule Update
19 May 2008
- The Book Show, ABC Australia, interviews UKL. Transcript and audio. [Offsite link]
12 May 2008
- The Ekumen, “a general discussion list for fans of Ursula K. Le Guin.” Associated with Dave Awl's Ekumen website.
12 May 2008
- Powers has been nominated for the Locus Award for best Young Adult Book. Winners will be announced at the Locus Awards ceremony in Seattle, Washington, 21 June 2008.
10 May 2008
- New reviews for Lavinia: Baltimore Sun, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Philadelphia Inquirer.
9 May 2008
- “Le Guin recasts this story with primal vigor and spare but powerful language.”
— Barbara McMichael reviews Lavinia for The Olympian Online.
8 May 2008
- “the inspired novelist has turned back toward the past — or, to be precise, poetry and myth about the past, because Lavinia is a literary rather than a historical figure — and written one of the finest novels she has ever made....’” — Alan Cheuse reviews Lavinia for the Chicago Tribune.
7 May 2008
- Live Wire podcast: Karen Karbo interviews UKL. [MP3 permalink]
6 May 2008
- "In simple, stately prose that does no violence to Vergil's
work, Le Guin presents the rough, unpretentious dignity of
the ancient pagans." Eve Ottenberg reviews Lavinia for The Washington Post.
5 May 2008
- "...an absorbing, reverent, magnificent story, one I will
be pressing upon my friends all year." Karen Long reviews Lavinia for the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
5 May 2008
- NPR’s Jacki Lyden interviews UKL on “All Things Considered,” 26 April 2008. (Audio)
27 April 2008
- Video of UKL’s 22 April appearance at Powell’s Bookstore. Lavinia reading, Q&A. Video courtesy of pdxjustice Media Productions.
27 April 2008
- Between the Covers: John J. Miller interviews UKL at National Review Online.
24 April 2008
- UKL reads from Lavinia in Seattle and Eagle Harbor. Elliott Bay Book Company: April 29; University Book Store: April 30; Eagle Harbor Books (Bainbridge Island): May 1, 2008. See the Calendar for details
23 April 2008
- On Tuesday, 22 April 2008, 7:30 p.m., at Powell’s Books (Burnside store), UKL will read from and sign Lavinia. 503-228-4651 for last-minute information.
20 April 2008
- LA Times Calendar Online review of Lavinia: “Everywhere Le Guin catches the rhythms of the great epic, echoes them, riffs. In a way, this is a jazzy book, playing in odd syncopation with a massive canonical work.”
[more]
20 April 2008
- Portland Oregonian review of Lavinia: “Ursula K. Le Guin’s brilliant new novel...”
[more]
20 April 2008
- New edition of Lathe of Heaven: SFWA Pressbook press release.
19 April 2008
- “A simple, beautiful rendition of the Tao Te Ching” — Hermester Barrington reviews UKL’s translation of Lao Tzu. Complete review at powells.com.
15 April 2008
- “The real uses of enchantment” — UKL reviews The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie, at Guardian Unlimited, Saturday March 29, 2008.
14 April 2008
- An excerpt from Lavinia at the website of The Wall Street Journal [offsite link]
12 April 2008
- “A Princess Seeking a Voice,” interview by Cynthia Crossen at The Wall Street Journal. [offsite link]
12 April 2008
- “Ursula Le Guin Champions Vergil’s Neglected Heroine.” Yvonne Zipp reviews Lavinia at The Christian Science Monitor [offsite link]
12 April 2008
- Live Wire interviews UKL, 7:00 p.m., 12 April 2008. Listen to Oregon Public Broadcasting live, or download the podcast later.
10 April 2008
- Read by the Author: “Sun Dance Poem,” from Music and Poetry of the Kesh, Always Coming Home.
23 March 2008
- “Persuading Us to Rejoice and Teaching Us How to Praise: Le Guin’s Orsinian Tales,” by James Bittner, SFS #16.
- Read by the Author: “Twilight Song,” from Always Coming Home.
16 March 2008
- Booklist review of Lavinia:
“...compulsively
readable... a winning combination of
history and mythology....” [more]
15 March 2008
- Powers has been named to the New York Public Library’s 2008 Books for the Teen Age list.
13 March 2008
- Read by the Author: UKL reads an excerpt from Catwings
9 March 2008
- The Catwings books, read by Ursula K. Le Guin, are now available on CD and cassette from Recorded Books, Inc.
9 March 2008
- Update: audiobooks and audio downloads
9 March 2008
- Lavinia’s Owl
3 March 2008
- Tawny Owl photo by Kim Taylor. Reproduced with the kind permission of Warren Photographic Digital Image Library
3 March 2008
- Some Real Good Quotes: Pitts, Jarrell, Saramago
- Map of Latium, from Lavinia. Desktop wallpaper downloads. Artist: Jeffery C. Mathison
25 February 2008
 Library Journal’s starred review calls Lavinia “Le Guin’s brilliant reimagining of the last six books of
Virgil’s epic poem.” The reviewer says “...this beautiful and moving novel is a love offering to one of the
world’s great poets...” “Highly recommended.”
19 February 2008
- Scribner’s will publish a new edition of UKL’s classic novel The Lathe of Heaven in April, 2008.
11 February 2008
- “Breaking into the Spell,” An interview with Ursula K. Le Guin. Conducted by Alexander Chee at Guernica Magazine, February 2008.
8 February 2008
- The Oregonian’s Steve Duin interviews UKL: “For Le Guin, the Journey Never Ends.”
5 February 2008
 Kirkus starred review of Lavinia: “Le Guin has
researched this ancient world assiduously, and her measured, understated
prose captures with equal skill the permutations of established ritual
and ceremony and the sensations of the battlefield.... Arguably her best novel, and an altogether worthy companion volume to
one of the Western world’s greatest stories.”
5 February 2008
- Interview for Spanish Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine
Fantasymundo — en castellano/in English. Conducted by Alejandro Serrano.
4 February 2008
- Read by the Author: Ursula reads A Book of Songs: Twelve Poems from Incredible Good Fortune.
3 February 2008
- Kirkus Spring & Summer Preview describes Lavinia as “what may be the crowning magnum opus of her storied career.” Review quotes and UKL interview.
31 January 2008
- Read by the Author: Ursula reads “She Unnames Them,” from Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences.
27 January 2008
- “For Judith,” at Gay Utopia, reprinted from Going out with Peacocks and Other Poems
26 January 2008
- Seattle Times Book Editor Michael Upchurch comments on UKL’s Harper’s article in Book Buzz: “Strong words about books and readers fling the gauntlet down at publishing’s Big Biz.” The Seattle Times, Friday, January 18, 2008.
22 January 2008
- “The shelf-life of shadows” — UKL reviews People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks, at The Guardian, Saturday, January 19, 2008.
22 January 2008
- Read by the Author: Ursula reads Three Poems from Wild Angels
20 January 2008
- An excerpt from Lavinia, (Harcourt, April 2008), and dates for Ursula’s west coast book tour.
15 January 2008
- Read by the Author debuts: Ursula reads an excerpt from A Wizard of Earthsea, Chapter 10: “The Open Sea” [5Mb MP3]
11 January 2008
- “Staying Awake:
Notes on the alleged decline of reading,”
Harper’s Magazine, February 2008, p 33.
11 January 2008
 “Le Guin is famous for creating alternative worlds (as in Left Hand of Darkness), and she approaches Lavinia’s world, from which Western civilization took its course, as unique and strange as any fantasy. It’s a novel that deserves to be ranked with Robert Graves’s I, Claudius.” Starred Review of Lavinia, Publishers Weekly, 24 December 2007
(2 January 2008)
- Earthsea Ambigram by Ryan Grohsmeyer (Posted 18 December 2007)
- Review of Powers in the Toronto Star. (Posted 16 December 2007)
- Neat Stuff: Brian Doyle suggests: “Five things to do with your kicker check.” (The Oregonian) (Posted 11 December 2007)
- Sigmund and the blind seer: UKL Reviews Girl Meets Boy, by Ali Smith, and
Where Three Roads Meet, by Salley Vickers. [Offsite link to Guardian Unlimited] (Posted 8 December 2007)
- 11 November 2007: Schedule Update: A Post-Performance Chat: On November 25th, 2007, following a performance
of Collected Stories by Donald Margulies, starring Vana and Eleanor
O’Brien, I will be leading a short discussion of the play with the
actors and audience. The play begins at 2:00 p.m., at the Coho Theater in
Portland (on NW Raleigh St just below 23rd Ave.)
- 6 November 2007: The Death Ray Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin, conducted by Guy Haley. Death Ray is an SF magazine that covers all
aspects of science fiction, fantasy and supernatural horror in all
media, and in great depth. It’s available in the USA in Barnes and Noble and Borders, and in the UK in highstreet newsagents, WHSmith’s, and supermarkets. Deathray #5, October 2007. Interview reprinted with the kind permission of Blackfish Publishing.
- 30 October 2007: Review by Lisa Goldstein of Powers, at Strange Horizons
- 30 October 2007: Portland Audubon Society Wild Arts Festival artwork and schedule.
- 22 October 2007: Schedule Update
- 14 October 2007: Followup to
SFWA, Piracy, and Serious Literature — An Open Letter
- 12 October 2007:
SFWA, Piracy, and Serious Literature — An Open Letter
- 2 October 2007: "With compelling themes about the soul-crushing effects of slavery, and a journey plotline that showcases Le Guin’s gift for creating a convincing array of cultures, this follow-up to Gifts (2004) and Voices (2006) may be the series’ best installment." — Jennifer Mattson,
Booklist Online.
[complete review]
- 2 October 2007: Guest article Tehanu: A Return to the Source, by Sharada Bhanu, from her doctoral thesis.
- 22 September 2007: Neat Stuff: Roger Ebert on Karen Joy Fowler’s The Jane Austen Book Club.
- 22 September 2007: Head Cases: UKL reviews The Stone Gods, by Jeanette Winterson. The Guardian.
- 21 September 2007: Location & ticket details for Nye Beach Writers’ Series
- 16 September 2007: "Goodbye to All That: The decline of the coverage of books isn’t new, benign, or necessary
," by Steve Wasserman, Columbia Journalism Review, September/October 2007.
- 14 September 2007: Review of Powers, The Globe and Mail, 8 September 2007, by Sarah Ellis. "So, let’s play. What if there were a writer who exhibited all the inventiveness of genre fantasy but played out the action with a cast of nuanced, gritty, convincing characters in a prose style that was as lean, distilled and rhythmical as poetry?... Speculate no more. That writer is Ursula K. Le Guin." [complete review]
- 12 September 2007: Neat stuff: Ansible Technologies’ Ursula K. Le Guin page.
- 12 September 2007: Neat Stuff: Ms. Margaret the Black Cat and Jane on Her Own, courtesy of Nicholson Library.
- 6 September 2007: New website navigation.
- 6 September 2007: New Maps: Gethen, Sur, Orsinia, Victoria Penal Colony, The Western Shore
- 3 September 2007: Some Books I’ve Liked
- 31 August 2007: Powers, the third book of the Annals of the Western Shore, is now
available at Powell’s Books. The official publication date is in
September 2007.
- 31 August 2007: New Photos
- 30 August 2007: A Celebration of Grace Paley by Robin Morgan
- 22 August 2007: Grace Paley
Grace Paley died on August 22d 2007. She was a beloved friend and
one of the great story-writers of America. I will miss her laugh,
her brilliant common sense, her kindness, her wit, her warmth,
forever. It is an abiding joy to have known her.
If you don’t know her work, this NYTimes obituary is a pretty good
introduction, though her poetry deserves more mention. And here is a nice interview with Grace at Salon.com. — UKL
- 22 August 2007: Photo Album Update
- 21 August 2007: Schedule Update
- 18 August 2007: Other Voices, Vol. 28, has published six poems by UKL.
- 17 August 2007: Harper’s Magazine, September 2007, issue, publishes "On Serious Literature"
under the title "I Know What You Read Last Summer" (Readings section).
- 15 August 2007: October 12 and 13, 2007, in New York, American Opera Projects will be doing
a staged version with piano of the Prologue and Act I Scene 3 of
Stephen Andrew Taylor’s opera Paradises Lost.
The entire opera will be performed at the University of Illinois in
Spring 2009.
The libretto is by Stephen Andrew Taylor and Kate Gale, with input from me.
It is based on my generation-ship novella "Paradises Lost," in The Birthday of the World
Excerpts were performed at the New York City Opera’s festival VOX this spring.
- 7 August 2007: Powers is now available at Powell’s Bookstore.
- 4 August 2007: Music online update: Paradises Lost.
- 15 August 2007: October 12 and 13, 2007, in New York, American Opera Projects will be doing
a staged version with piano of the Prologue and Act I Scene 3 of
Stephen Andrew Taylor’s opera Paradises Lost.
The entire opera will be performed at the University of Illinois in
Spring 2009.
The libretto is by Stephen Andrew Taylor and Kate Gale, with input from me.
It is based on my generation-ship novella "Paradises Lost," in The Birthday of the World
Excerpts were performed at the New York City Opera’s festival VOX this spring.
- 7 August 2007: Powers is now available at Powell’s Bookstore.
- 4 August 2007: Edward Champion’s Roundup reports: "Ursula K. Le Guin, hubba hubba! Yowzahs! Rowr!" [offsite link continues]
- 27 July 2007: Schedule Update and date change
- 25 July 2007: How to Pronounce Me
- 17 July 2007: Return of the Genre Zombie: PDF of "On Serious Literature" with cover by Bellatrys. [offsite link]
- 5 July 2007: Origin, Sixth Series, Issue 4, including "Extinction," a poem by Ursula K. Le Guin. [5.75Mb PDF]
- 3 July 2007: The Hidden Sky: A Chamber Opera based on the Le Guin Short Story "The Masters."
- 3 July 2007: Audio section debuts
- July 2007: Ansible reprints "On Serious Literature"
- 23 June 2007: Schedule update
- 18 June 2007: Some Books I’ve Liked (June 2007)
- 18 June 2007: On Serious Literature
- 16 June 2007: "The soldier’s grave" — UKL reviews Penelope Lively’s Consequences. [Offsite link to The Guardian]
- 8 June 2007: Excerpt from Powers, forthcoming from Harcourt, September 2007.
- 14 May 2007: An Analysis of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Short Story "Sur," by Abdulwahab Khaleefa
- 12 May 2007: "The Baby-Snatchers" — UKL reviews Suffer the Little Children, by Donna Leone [Offsite link to The Guardian]
- 7 May 2007: Schedule update
- 5 May 2007: "Findings," a short story by Ursula K. Le Guin, at Moondance, May 2007.
- 27 April 2007: Schedule update
- 27 April 2007: A Wizard of Earthsea joins the National Endowment of the Arts’ Big Read Library
- 26 April 2007: The President of Harvard
- 24 April 2007: Pictures of Fishermen
- 24 April 2007: Locus Award nomination for Voices.
- 24 April 2007: Interview by Margarita Meklina (in Russian)
- 19 April 2007: Magda Healey at The Bookbag reviews Voices.
Copyright © 2007 by Ursula K. Le Guin
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