Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations by Ursula K. Le Guin

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


A book of last interviews, and the last one, THE last one, in the summer of 2017, before Le Guin's death in 2018: yes, please read,

As I write this, I am thinking this was one last time to listen in on the ruminations of one amazing and wonderful and creative mind, as she pondered questions about her work, her thoughts on the craft of writing, on her fictional universes, and I wish I could do so again.

Reading her work, studying her fiction, changed my life.

I am so lucky to have met Ursula K. Le Guin and told her just that.

Highly recommended.

Bonus: a footnote telling the reader that one last Earthsea story, "Firelight," was published in the Summer 2018 Paris Review, 6 months after Le Guin's death. David Streitfeld, the editor of The Last Interview, and the man who interviewed the last time, says "Firelight" is "a moving account of of Ged's dying, with Tenar by his side" (161). I can't wait to read it--and am thinking: her last published story, about the death of one her most famous and beloved characters, written close to her own death, published not long after: life, poetry, art, the story, farewell.



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