Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin
Le Guin will speak with Margaret Atwood at Portland Arts & Lectures on September 23. I’ll be traveling north once again to interview Ms. Atwood about Ms. Le Guin. Atwood’s review of Le Guin’s story collection Birthday of the World is one of my favorite pieces of Le Guin criticism. For her part, Le Guin has taken Atwood to task for evading the term “science fiction” to describe her last novel, the enthusiastically welcomed The Year of the Flood. Their discussion is sure to be thought-provoking, and if I were you, and anywhere nearby, I’d be sure not to miss it.