Steering the Craft
Title | Steering the Craft PDF eBook |
Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 163 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0544611616 |
A revised and updated guide to the essentials of a writer's craft, presented by a brilliant practitioner of the art
Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing
Title | Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
Publisher | Tin House Books |
Pages | 124 |
Release | 2018-04-03 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1947793004 |
Ursula K. Le Guin discusses her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry?both her process and her philosophy?with all the wisdom, profundity, and rigor we expect from one of the great writers of the last century. When the New York Times referred to Ursula K. Le Guin as America’s greatest writer of science fiction, they just might have undersold her legacy. It’s hard to look at her vast body of work?novels and stories across multiple genres, poems, translations, essays, speeches, and criticism?and see anything but one of our greatest writers, period. In a series of interviews with David Naimon (Between the Covers), Le Guin discusses craft, aesthetics, and philosophy in her fiction, poetry, and nonfiction respectively. The discussions provide ample advice and guidance for writers of every level, but also give Le Guin a chance to to sound off on some of her favorite subjects: the genre wars, the patriarchy, the natural world, and what, in her opinion, makes for great writing. With excerpts from her own books and those that she looked to for inspiration, this volume is a treat for Le Guin’s longtime readers, a perfect introduction for those first approaching her writing, and a tribute to her incredible life and work.
Who Says?: Mastering Point of View in Fiction
Title | Who Says?: Mastering Point of View in Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa Zeidner |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 211 |
Release | 2021-02-09 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0393356124 |
A thorough, illuminating, and entertaining guide to crafting point of view, a fiction writer’s most essential choice. Who is telling the story to whom is the single most important question about any work of fiction; the answer is central to everything from style and tone to plot and pacing. Using hundreds of examples from Jane Austen to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Leo Tolstoy to Stephen King, novelist and longtime MFA professor Lisa Zeidner dives deep into the points of view we are most familiar with—first and third person—and moves beyond to second-person narration, frame tales, and even animal points of view. Engaging and accessible, Who Says? presents any practicing writer with a new system for choosing a point of view, experimenting with how it determines the narrative, and applying these ideas to revision.
The Language of the Night
Title | The Language of the Night PDF eBook |
Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
Publisher | Ultramarine Publishing |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Fantastic fiction |
ISBN | 9780399504822 |
Self-steering for Sailing Craft
Title | Self-steering for Sailing Craft PDF eBook |
Author | John S. Letcher |
Publisher | International Marine Publishing |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Sailboats |
ISBN | 9780877420422 |
Words Are My Matter
Title | Words Are My Matter PDF eBook |
Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
Publisher | Mariner Books |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0358212103 |
A collection of essays on life and literature, from one of the most iconic authors and astute critics in contemporary letters. Words Are My Matter is essential reading: a collection of talks, essays, and criticism by Ursula K. Le Guin, a literary legend and unparalleled voice of our social conscience. Here she investigates the depth and breadth of contemporary fiction--and, through the lens of literature, gives us a way of exploring the world around us. In "Freedom," Le Guin notes: "Hard times are coming, when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now ... to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We'll need writers who can remember freedom--poets, visionaries--realists of a larger reality." Le Guin was one of those authors and inWords Are My Matter she gives us just that: a vision of a better reality, fueled by the power and might and hope of language and literature.
No Time to Spare
Title | No Time to Spare PDF eBook |
Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1328661598 |
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