by Brenda W. Clough The first thing to do when you decide to make something? Go shopping! Only the highest and most abstruse creativity calls for no equipment at all — philosophy, maybe? Everybody else needs stuff. Mathematicians need gigantic … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: January 2018
In my family, there was no mushroom soup or French fried onion rings in any side dish. We saved cheese for other dishes, because when you mix green beans, slivered water chestnuts, and cream of celery soup–you have something people think you have slaved over
Continue readingWhy is it I’m still afraid of the dentist? or not so much afraid as really super unwilling to go. I don’t exactly fear pain, because I know it doesn’t hurt so much. My dentist is careful to numb me … Continue reading
Some writers are just—more. More everything. More brilliant. More talented. More challenging, and more wickedly subversive. Ursula was all of those things, but even more than that, she was loved. I was her colleague in genre and here at Book … Continue reading
(Third in a series. Here are parts One and Two.) One of the striking things about Ponce, and I guess much of Latin America and the Caribbean, is that there’s so much beauty right alongside the poverty. I don’t always … Continue reading
Author Ursula Le Guin has died, at the age of 88. She was a giant in the field—and by “the field,” I mean not just science fiction and fantasy, but the world of American letters. Winner of multiple Hugo and … Continue reading
For the past 3 years, I have spent a cold day in winter counting birds. Amateur bird-watcher that I am—not a “birder” in that I don’t devote hours of my life learning bird song even though I wish I had … Continue reading
Ursula K. Le Guin’s 2017 collection of essays, No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters, is one of the five finalists for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. This prize, one of the PEN America Literary … Continue reading
by Brenda W. Clough Truly one of the giants of the field. I’m going to miss hearing about Pard. … Continue reading
When I first began teaching writing while I was at Chapman and eager to launch my “new career,” I got Ursula Le Guin’s book Steering the Craft and was powerfully impressed by what I learned from it along with my reading … Continue reading