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3 days agoUrsula K. Le Guin's blog has been turned into a podcast
Ursula K. Le Guin's blog is being rereleased as a podcast featuring all posts, including essays, poems, and cat pictures.
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fromPortland Mercury
4 months agoOregon Contemporary's Le Guin Exhibition: Earthsea Maps, Cat Drawings, and a Full-Scale Reproduction of Her Writing Room
A Larger Reality: Ursula K. Le Guin isn't a typical exhibition. Ursula Kroeber Le Guin wasn't a typical artist. Curated by her son, Theo Downes-Le Guin, the new show installed at Oregon Contemporaryis, by his definition, "nonobjective"-a sprawling love note unembarrassed by its devotion. Braiding her personal and creative worlds, the exhibition pulls together interactive installations, a working typewriter, and hand-drawn maps of Earthsea. And that's just scratching the surface.
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fromPortland Mercury
5 months agoThe Mercury's Do This, Do That: Your Top Events for November 3-9
This week, new reads proliferate in many local venues and varieties: Portland Book Festival posts up at the art museum, Cover to Cover brings readings to lit-friendly locations on both sides of the river, and the Zine Symposium keeps things DIY and a little radical. Plus, Shay Mirk chats nonfiction comics at Literary Arts, and the new Ursula K. Le Guin exhibition at Oregon Contemporary features her very cool purse.
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fromPortland Monthly
5 months agoUrsula K. Le Guin's Son Recommends 5 of Her Books
"Her voice is as familiar to me as my own," says Theo Downes-Le Guin, youngest child of hugely influential Portland author Ursula K. Le Guin. "That voice is inside my head while I'm reading." Most aren't so fortunate, even if they feel at home in Le Guin's Earthsea and Hainish universes. Before her death in 2018, Le Guin was unanimously regarded as the leading light of American science fiction.
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