Recall This Book

112 Earthsea, and Other Realms: Ursula Le Guin as Social Inactivist (EF, JP, [UKL])

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To mark the publication of John's book Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea (My Reading), with Oxford University Press (2023), John and Elizabeth take to the airways to share their love of Le Guin's "speculative anthropology," gender politics, and goats.

And we share a delight we've been holding back for just this occasion, a series of clips from John's interview with Le Guin in her hometown of Portland, Oregon, in 2015 (a longer print-only version appeared in Public Books). Since Ursula is no longer with us, having died in 2018, it's especially poignant to listen to their conversation. Though its tone actually isn't sad at all, but friendly, generous, and ruminative.

Mentioned in the Episode

  • Ursula K. Le Guin, The Books of Earthsea
  • Friedrich Schiller, "On Naive and Sentimental Poetry"
  • Ursula K. Le Guin, "From Elfland to Poughkeepsie"
  • Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
  • Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
  • Lloyd Alexander, Taran Wanderer (and the Chronicles of Prydain)
  • Judith Butler Gender Trouble
  • Angelica Gorodischer (esp. Le Guin's translation of Kalpa Imperial)
  • Lao Tzu, the Tao Te Ching, tr. Ursula K. Le Guin
  • "The Bones of the Earth" in Tales from Earthsea
  • John Plotz, Time and the Tapestry
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