Essays by Ursula K. Le Guin

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2008



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  • "Assumptions About Fantasy" (in Cheek and Jowl)
  • "The Wilderness Within" (in Cheek and Jowl)
  • "Re-Reading Peter Rabbit" (in Cheek and Jowl)
  • "The Critics, the Monsters, and the Fantasists" (in Cheek and Jowl)
  • "Cheek by Jowl: Animals in Children's Literature" (in Cheek and Jowl)
  • "The Young Adult in the YA" (in Cheek and Jowl)
  • "A Message About Messages" (in Cheek and Jowl)
  • "Why Kids Want Fantasy" (in Cheek and Jowl)


  • "Introducing Myself" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Being Taken for Granite" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Indian Uncles" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "My Libraries" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "My Island" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "On the Frontier" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "All Happy Families" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Things Not Actually Present: On The Book of Fantasy and J. L. Borges" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Reading Young, Reading Old: Mark Twain's Diaries of Adam and Eve" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Thinking About Cordwainer Smith" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Stress-Rhythm in Poetry and Prose" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Rhythmic Pattern in The Lord of the Rings" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "The Wilderness Within: The Sleeping Beauty and 'The Poacher'" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Off the Page: Loud Cows: A Talk and a Poem About Reading Aloud" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Fact and/or/plus Fiction" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Award and Gender" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "On Genetic Determinism" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "About Feet" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Dogs, Cats, and Dancers: Thoughts About Beauty" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Collectors, Rhymesters, and Drummers" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Telling Is Listening" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "The Operating Instructions" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "'A War Without End'" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "A Matter of Trust" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "The Writer and the Character" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Unquestioned Assumptions" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Prides: An Essay on Writing Workshops" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "The Question I Get Asked Most Often" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Old Body Not Writing" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "The Writer on, and at, Her Work" (in The Wave in the Mind)


  • "The Sound of Your Writing" with Exercise One: Being Gorgeous (in Steering the Craft)
  • "Punctuation" with Exercise Two: I Am García Márquez (in Steering the Craft)
  • "Sentence Length and Complex Syntax" with Exercise Three: Short and Long (in Steering the Craft)
  • "Repetition" with Exercise Four: Again and Again and Again (in Steering the Craft)
  • "Adjective and Adverb" with Exercise Five: Chastity (in Steering the Craft)
  • "Subject Pronoun and Verb" with Exercise Six: The Old Woman (in Steering the Craft)
  • "Point of View and Voice" with Exercise Seven: POV (in Steering the Craft)
  • "Changing Point of View" with Exercise Eight: Changing Voices (in Steering the Craft)
  • "Indirect Narration, or What Tells" with Exercise Nine: Telling It Slant (in Steering the Craft)
  • "Crowding and Leaping" with Exercise Ten: A Terrible Thing to Do (in Steering the Craft)


  • "The Space Crone" (1976) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Is Gender Necessary? Redux" (1976) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Moral and Ethical Implications of Family Planning" (1978) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "It Was a Dark and Stormy Night" (1979) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Working on 'The Lathe'" (1979) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Some Thoughts on Narrative" (1980) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "World-Making" (1981) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Hunger" (1981) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Place Names" (1981) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "The Princess" (1982) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be" (1982) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Facing It" (1982) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Reciprocity of Prose and Poetry" (1983) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "A Left-Handed Commencement Address" (1983) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Along the Platte" (1983) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Whose Lathe?" (1984) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "The Woman Without Answers" (1984) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "The Second Report of the Shipwrecked Foreigner to the Kadanh of Derb" (1984) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Room 9, Car 1430" (1985) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Theodora" (1985) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Science Fiction and the Future" (1985) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "The Only Good Author?" (1985) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Bryn Mawr Commencement Address" (1986) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Woman / Wilderness" (1986) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction" (1986) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Heroes" (1986) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Prospects for Women in Writing" (1986) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Text, Silence, Performance" (1986) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Who is Responsible?" (1987) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Conflict" (1987) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Where Do You Get Your Ideas From?" (1987) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Over the Hills and a Great Way Off" (1988) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "The Fisherwoman's Daughter" (1988) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)


  • "Le Guin Introduces Le Guin: Introduction" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "A Citizen of Mondath" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "On Fantasy and Science Fiction: Introduction" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "Why Are Americans Afraid of Dragons?" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "Dreams Must Explain Themselves" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "National Book Award Acceptance Speech" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "The Child and the Shadow" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "Myth and Archetype in Science Fiction" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "From Elfland to Poughkeepsie" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "American SF and The Other" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "Science Fiction and Mrs. Brown" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "Do-It-Yourself Cosmology" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "The Book Is What Is Real: Introduction" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "Introduction to Rocannon's World" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "Introduction to Planet of Exile" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "Introduction to City of Illusions" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "Introduction to The Word for World Is Forest" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "Introduction to The Left Hand of Darkness" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "Is Gender Necessary? Redux" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "The Staring Eye" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "The Modest One" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "Introduction to Star Songs of an Old Primate" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "Telling the Truth: Introduction" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "Introduction to The Altered I (excerpt)" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "Talking About Writing" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "Escape Routes (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "Pushing at the Limits: Introduction" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "The Stalin in the Soul" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "The Stone Ax and the Muskoxen" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)

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