Sign-In
Cart
No Time to Spare: Thinking about What Matters
Hardcover
Letters & EssaysFiction Anthologies
Publisher Price: $22.00
ISBN13: 9781328661593
Publisher: Harper
Published: Dec 5 2017
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.83
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
Awards: Hugo Award
Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Related Book and the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
The pages sparkle with lines that make a reader glance up, searching for an available ear with which to share them. . . -- Melissa Febos, The New York Times Book Review
From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, a collection of literary essays--always adroit, often acerbic--on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation.
Ursula K. Le Guin on the absurdity of denying your age: If I'm ninety and believe I'm forty-five, I'm headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub.
On cultural perceptions of fantasy: The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is 'escapism' an accusation of?
On breakfast: Eating an egg from the shell takes not only practice, but resolution, even courage, possibly willingness to commit crime.
Ursula K. Le Guin took readers to imaginary worlds for decades. In the last great frontier of life, old age, she explored a new literary territory in these powerful reflections on aging: the blog, a forum where she shined. The collected best of Ursula's blog, No Time to Spare presents perfectly crystallized dispatches and wisdom on life and writing that show what mattered to her late in life, her concerns with the world, and her wonder at it: How rich we are in knowledge, and in all that lies around us yet to learn. Billionaires, all of us.
This essential collection delivers her sharp wisdom on the things that truly matter:
- Witty Nonfiction: Find out why eating a soft-boiled egg requires 'resolution, even courage' in essays that blend the profound with the perfectly mundane.
- Social Commentary: A sharp defense of fantasy as an escape toward freedom and a clear-eyed critique of a world obsessed with corporate growth.
- Feminist Essays: A clear-eyed look at the power of sisterhood, the pitfalls of literary 'greatness, ' and the quiet strength of women.
- Essays About Cats: Meet Pard, the spirited feline companion whose antics--from hunting beetles to outsmarting a Time Machine--inspire meditations on life and communication.
2 different editions
Also available
Also in
Letters & Essays
Essays V2: Moral And Entertaining On The Various Faculties And Passions Of The Human Mind (1815)
Clarendon, Edward Hyde Earl of
Paperback
But Have You Read the Book? Romance Edition: 40 Love Stories That Inspired Our Favorite Films
Lopez, Kristen
Hardcover
Sez I to Myself: The Collected Essays of Frank and Malachy McCourt
McCourt, Malachy
McCourt, Frank
Hardcover
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
Nezhukumatathil, Aimee
Paperback
Little Apocalypses: Essays on Motherhood, Climate Change, and Hope at the End of the World
Teer, Kaitlyn
Paperback
Corazón Migrante. Ensayos Sobre Lo Que No Puedo Olvidar / Migrant Heart: Essays on What I Cannot Forget
Grande, Reyna
Paperback
Glimmerings: Letters on Faith Between a Poet and a Theologian
Wiman, Christian
Volf, Miroslav
Hardcover
Love in the Afternoon, and Evening: Essays and Conversations on Soap Operas
Druckman, Charlotte
Sen, Mayukh
Paperback
Wonderbook (Revised and Expanded): The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction
VanderMeer, Jeff
Paperback
Mon Cher Amour: The Love Letters of Albert Camus and Maria Casares, 1944-1959
Camus, Albert
Hardcover
Languages of Home: Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives 1975-2025
Wideman, John Edgar
Hardcover