Full name: The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

Author: Ursula K. Le Guin Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Essays, Philosophy Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781590300060 1590300068

Join Ursula K. Le Guin as she explores a broad array of subjects, ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to women's shoes, beauty, and family life. With her customary wit, intelligence, and literary craftsmanship, she offers a diverse and highly engaging set of readings. The Wave in the Mind includes some of Le Guin's finest literary criticism, rare autobiographical writings, performance art pieces, and, most centrally, her reflections on the arts of writing and reading. Similar books: Burning Down the House by Charles Baxter Curious Pursuits by Margaret Atwood Dancing at the Edge of the World by Ursula K. Le Guin Time Bites by Doris Lessing Literary Occasions by V. S. Naipaul New Ways to Kill Your Mother by Colm Toibin Break Every Rule by Carole Maso Daemon Voices by Philip Pullman Thank You for Not Reading by Dubravka Ugresic The Merry Heart by Robertson Davies Reflections by Diana Wynne Jones The Moronic Inferno by Martin Amis To Show and to Tell by Phillip Lopate Table of Contents by John McPhee Both Flesh and Not by David Foster Wallace The Language of the Night by Ursula K. Le Guin Mythologies by Roland Barthes The Dialogic Imagination by Mikhail Bakhtin Minima Moralia by Theodor W. Adorno The Gift of Good Land by Wendell Berry