Category: Non1
Dreams Must Explain Themselves — Ursula K. Le Guin
National Book Award Acceptance Speech
Dreams Must Explain Themselves
A Citizen of Mondath
From Elfland to Poughkeepsie
Why Are Americans Afraid of Dragons?
Is Gender Necessary? Redux
Introduction to The Left Hand of Darkness
The Space Crone
Introduction to The Word for World is Forest
Close Encounters, Star Wars, and the Tertium Quid
Shikasta by Doris Lessing
It was a Dark and Stormy Night: Or, Why Are We Huddling about the Campfire?
The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five by Doris Lessing
Some Thoughts on Narrative
Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino
World-Making
The Princess
Facing It
A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be
A Left-Handed Commencement Address
The Sentimental Agents by Doris Lessing
Whose Lathe?
Theodora
Science Fiction and the Future
Prospects for Women in Writing
Bryn Mawr Commencement Address
Heroes
The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
The Fisherwoman’s Daughter
Things Not Actually Present: On The Book of Fantasy and J. L. Borges
Prides: An Essay on Writing Workshops
Indian Uncles by Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
The Writer On, and At, Her Work
Dogs, Cats, and Dancers: Thoughts about Beauty
Introducing Myself
Off the Page: Loud Cows, a Talk and a Poem about Reading Aloud
Reading Young, Reading Old: Mark Twain’s Diaries of Adam and Eve
All Happy Families
The Operating Instructions
The Question I get Asked Most Often
Rhythmic Pattern in The Lord of the Rings
A Matter of Trust
On the Frontier
Old Body, Not Writing
The Critics, the Monsters, and the Fantasists
Collectors, Rhymesters, and Drummers
About Feet
The Writer and the Character
Cheek by Jowl: Animals in Children’s Literature
Why Kids Want Fantasy, or, Be Careful What You Eat
National Book Award Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters Acceptance Speech
Ursula’s Page
#scifi #ursulakleguin
The Artist’s Journey — Steven Pressfield
Why Work? — Anthology
Introductions
Beyond Waged Labour — Nina Power – 2016
In Praise of Idleness — Bertrand Russell – 1932
Useful Work versus Useless Toil — William Morris – 1885
The Problems of Work
The Tyranny of the Clock — George Woodcock – 1944
The Problem of Work — Camillo Berneri – 1938
The Art of Shovelling — Ifan Edwards – 1947
Measuring Misery — John Hewetson – 1954
The Wage System — Peter Kropotkin – 1888
“˜Who will do the Dirty Work?’ — Tony Gibson – 1952
The Dominant Idea — Voltarine de Cleyre – 1910
Alternatives and Futures
Reflections on Utopia — SP – 1962
Collectives in the Spanish Revolution — Gaston Leval – 1975
Significance of the “Self-Build” Movement – 1952
Leisure in America — August Heckscher II – 1961
The Other Economy: The Possibilities of Work Beyond Employment — Denis Pym – 1981
Visions: Six Drawings — Cliff Harper – 1975
Production: Need vs Profit
Editorials from Freedom Newspaper – 1958-1962
Changing Times
Wrinklies and Crumblies Discuss Punks and Joblessness — Colin Ward – 1996
Beyond an Economy of Work and Spend — Juliet Schor – 1997
Dark Satanic Cubicles: It’s Time to Smash the Job Culture! — Claire Wolfe – 2005
On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs — David Graeber – 2013
Work — Prole.info – 2005
The Slow Burning Fuse — John Quail
About Anarchism — Nicolas Walter
Journey through Utopia — Marie Louise Berneri
101 Letters to a Prime Minister — Yann Martel
The first 55 book suggestions were previously published as What is Stephen Harper Reading? – 2009.
