Lucy Snyder, currently here on campus for her Goddard residency, recently interviewed Ursula K. Le Guin for NewMyths.com. Here’s a sneak peak:
Elsewhere, you’ve said that you’ve learned a lot from reading Virginia Woolf. Can you elaborate on some of the writing craft lessons her work has taught you?“I learned that shifting point of view/shifting voice(s) can be an endlessly demanding and fascinating way to tell a story. That plot does not matter to the kind of fiction I like best, but story growing out of relationships is what matters. That if you can’t read it out loud with pleasure it isn’t really worth reading.”
For the full interview, check out newmyths.com
Ursula K. Le Guin is the grand dame of science fiction. Since 1968, she has published twenty-one novels, eleven short story collections, three books of essays, twelve children’s books, and six collections of poetry. She has also edited volumes such as The Norton Book of Science Fiction (1993) and Edges: Thirteen New Tales From The Borderlands Of The Imagination (1980). She has won five Hugos, six Nebulas, two World Fantasy Awards, three Tiptree Awards, among others. Le Guin has also been honored with the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award, the SFWA Grand Master Award, and the Science Fiction Research Association Pilgrim Award for her lifetime contributions to SF and fantasy; she is also a Science Fiction Hall of Fame Living Inductee.
