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The Wave in the Mind: Imagination and the Art of Writing and Reading

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Essays on writing, reading, and imagination

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Essays on writing, reading, and imagination

Collected essays, talks, and performance pieces bring together Le Guin’s reflections on literary figures including Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien with writing, creativity, feminism, and the pleasures of imagination. The collection also includes autobiographical writing and considers subjects such as gender, beauty, aging, and the public library. Its range makes the book both a work of literary criticism and a set of meditations on how stories are made and read.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in literary criticism and essays on writers such as Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien.
  • Writers and readers curious about creativity, storytelling, and imagination.
  • Those seeking essays that also address feminism, gender, aging, and public libraries.

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Writing and creativityReading and literary criticismImagination and storytellingFeminism, gender, and agingPublic libraries

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Book overview

Join Ursula K. Le Guin as she turns her writer's eye to subjects ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to creativity, feminism, and the joy of imagination.

In this collection of essays, talks, and performance pieces, one of our great literary icons shares profound literary criticism, rare autobiographical writings, and playful musings on gender, beauty, and aging. With keen wit and masterful language, Le Guin is provocative, clear-eyed, and often exhilarating--whether issuing a sly takedown of Hemingway or an impassioned defense of the public library.

The Wave in the Mind is a celebration of the art of writing, the power of reading, and the boundless possibilities of imagination. Brimming over with Le Guin's fierce and undeniable love for storytelling, it is a call to use the gift we all share: the ability to turn anything into a story.

"All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people."--Ursula K. Le Guin, from The Wave in the Mind.
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