The Paris Review
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Art of Fiction No. 221
13+ min · · Le Guin, 1996.
In the early 1960s, when Ursula K. Le Guin began to publish, science fiction was dominated by so-called hard sci-fi: speculative fiction grounded in physics, chemistry, and, to a lesser extent, biology. The understanding of technological progress as an unalloyed good went largely u... · Shared by 12, including Liv š·
flatheadbeacon.com
Edward Abbey's Day Job
4 min · · āHavenāt seen a real fire or smoke yet,ā Edward Abbey wrote in the Numa Ridge Lookout logbook on July 12, 1975. āOne craves a little excitement around this joint.ā Abbey, then 48, was at his day job… · Shared by 5, including Liv š·
The New York Times
Our Autofiction Fixation
5 min · · Why do we assume that a work of literary fiction must be based on its authorās life? · Shared by 32, including Carissa VĆ©liz, Liv š·
vqronline.org
Frantumaglia
17+ min · · The enormous attention to Elena Ferranteās Neapolitan quartetāfirst the books published in the US between 2012 and 2015 and then the HBO series that has so far covered the first two titles, My… · Shared by 7, including Liv š·
mealsmatter.net
The Truffle Hunters ā movie asĀ portraiture
2 min · · BEFORE WE GET any further: Italian white truffles are more marvelously aromatic than the French black, and have resisted cultivation, unlike the latter. Many years before white truffles fetched sevā¦ · Shared by 6, including Liv š·
The New Yorker
What Happens When You Breathe
8 min · · Our lungs sustain a delicate equilibrium in our bodies, while exposing us to a world that seems increasingly out of balance. · Shared by 91, including Liv š·, Andy Puddicombe, Jane
Los Angeles Review of Books
Writing Fiction in the Age of Climate Catastrophe: A Conversation Between Anne Charnock and James Bradley
20+ min · · James Bradley and Anne Charnock discuss what itās like to write fiction in the age of climate catastrophe. · Shared by 16, including Damon Young, Liv š·
sydneyreviewofbooks.com
The Library at the End of the World
20+ min · · Shared by 8, including Liv š·
Tortoise
Matthew dāAncona: Le CarrĆ©ās last mission
6 min · · John le CarrĆ© was much more than the greatest chronicler of the Cold War. He saw the fault-lines in all that followed ā and warned us of them till the end · Shared by 6, including Liv š·
The New Yorker
The Radicalization of Joan Didion
20+ min · · She started out a Goldwater conservative. How did she become a voice of the left? · Shared by 16, including Liv š·
The New York Times
Doris Lessingās āGolden Notebookā and Our Era of Unrest
5 min · · Lessingās 1962 novel is far from a manifesto. But in its embrace of chaos and split identities, it captures the mood of both its time and ours. · Shared by 106, including Liv š·, Jane
The Guardian
Crime fiction boom as book sales rocket past 2019 levels
2 min · · With bookshops still closed in parts of the UK, sales have surpassed last yearās numbers, with 3.8m print books sold in the last week · Shared by 118, including Jane, Liv š·