No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters

Synopsis

From Acclaimed Author Ursula K. Le Guin, A Collection Of Thoughts--always Adroit, Often Acerbic--on Aging, Belief, The State Of Literature, And The State Of The Nation-- Introduction / By Karen Joy Fowler -- A Note At The Beginning -- Part One. Going Over Eighty. In Your Spare Time ; The Sissy Strikes Back ; The Diminished Thing ; Catching Up, Ha Ha -- The Annals Of Pard. Choosing A Cat ; Chosen By A Cat -- Part Two. The Lit Biz. Would You Please Fucking Stop? ; Readers' Questions ; Kids' Letters ; Having My Cake ; Papa H ; A Much-needed Literary Award ; Tgan And Tgow ; Tgan Again ; The Narrative Gift As A Moral Conundrum ; It Doesn't Have To Be The Way It Is ; Utopiyin, Utopiyang -- The Annals Of Pard. The Trouble ; Pard And The Time Machine -- Part Three. Trying To Make Sense Of It. A Band Of Brothers, A Stream Of Sisters ; Exorcists ; Uniforms ; Clinging Desperately To A Metaphor ; Lying It All Away ; The Inner Child And The Nude Politician ; A Modest Proposal: Vegempathy ; Belief In Belief ; About Anger -- The Annals Of Pard. An Unfinished Education ; An Unfinished Education, Continued ; Doggerel For My Cat -- Part Four. Rewards. The Circling Stars, The Sea Surrounding: Philip Glass And John Luther Adams ; Rehearsal ; Someone Named Delores ; Without Egg ; Notre-dame De La Faim ; The Tree ; The Horsies Upstairs ; First Contact ; The Lynx ; Notes From A Week At A Ranch In The Oregon High Desert. Ursula K. Le Guin ; [introduction By Karen Joy Fowler]. Includes An Illustration By The Author On Page 154. Writer Of Introduction Taken From Dust Jacket.