The Wave in the Mind

The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination is a 2004 collection of essays by Ursula K. Le Guin. It won the 2005 Locus Award for Best Nonfiction Book.

Editions

• 2004, Shambhala

Contents

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