Ursula K. Le Guin's Blog, page 23

New on the Website: August

Art, Information, Theft, and Confusion, Part 2; Ghost Light review; Interview d'Ursula K. Le Guin, conducted by Bernard Henninger (in French)

Out Here

Poems and Images from Steens Mountain Country: poems & drawings by Ursula K. Le Guin; photography by Roger Dorband. September, 2010. Pre-order autographed copies.

Cheek by Jowl wins Locus Award

Locus Magazine presented Ursula K. Le Guin with the Locus Award for Cheek by Jowl: Talks and Essays on How & Why Fantasy Matters, published by Aqueduct Press, April 2009. The ceremony was held in Seattle, Washington, 26 June 2010.

New on the Website

China's Sky Award shortlist. Daily Astorian article. New photo.

An Appeal for Phil's Fund

Great North West Books, one of Portland's oldest second-hand
bookstores, specialising in rare and antique books, was housed in a fine old
church building. The photograph shows what was left last week after a fire of
unknown cause began in the basement....

UKL at Ooligan Press Author Stage

UKL speaks at the Ooligan Press Write to PUblish Conference, 22-23 May 2010. The Author Stage, 11:00 a.m. 23 May 2010.

Schedule Update

UKL: Writing about Place, Cannon Beach Library, 8 May 2010.

Locus Award Finalist

Cheek by Jowl, published by Aqueduct Press, is one of the top five Locus Award Finalists.

Website Update

Schedule update, Ride on the Red Mare's Back audio, Cat Dreams photos, Steam Engine Time

Art, Information, Theft, and Confusion, Part 1

A seventeen-year-old German woman named Hegeman recently published a novel called Axolotl Roadkill amidst a flurry of publicity. People promptly pointed out that many passages in it were plagiarised from another fairly recent novel, Strobo, whose author uses the pen name Airen. Nevertheless, the book was announced as a finalist for the $20,000 prize of the Leipzig Book Fair. ...