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Book Hype Podcast

Episode #122: Who Is Ursula Le Guin?

Hosted by Karen, Kristen, and Brittany

October 26, 2016

Book Hype hosts Karen, Brittany and Kristen explore the worlds of Ursula Le Guin which are now immortalized in the Library of America!

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What we’re reading:
Seduction in Session by Shayla Black and Lexi Blake
Play by Kylie Scott

Book Bites:
-What are some of our favorite works of science-fiction?
-But first, what is science-fiction?
-We have War of the Worlds, The Martian, Armada, Smallville, Minority Report, Interstellar, Gravity, Frankenstein,, and, of course, Jules Verne’s work

What are we talking about Ursula Le Guin?
-Le Guin’s work was recently selected to join the Library of America
-She and Philip Roth are the only two living people who can see their work collected here
-We discovered her through our new episode in this Washington Post article
-If you really want to get to know Le Giun, read this incredibleNew Yorker piece on her

Fun facts about Ursula:
-On her marriage license her husband’s last name was misspelled with a space, so they both decided to keep Le Guin
-She marched against the Vietnam war in a conga line with Allen Ginsberg
Philip K Dick was in her graduating class at Berkeley High—the two did not know each other
-She is very vocal about Google’s digitization of literature and has had some feuds with Amazon and Google about the lack of proper compensation for authors
-At age 11 she submitted her first story to the magazine Astounding Science Fiction. It was rejected.

What we read:
-Brittany: Hainish Cycle Book One: Rocannon’s World, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” and “The Left Handed Commencement Address”
-Karen: Earthsea; short stories: “Solitude”, “Semly’s Necklace” (The Unreal and the Real, Selected Stories, Vol. 2); “The Silence of the Asonu” (Lightspeed: Year One, edited by John Joseph Adams)
-Kristen: The Lathe of Heaven

What’s Next:
-Our October book is Cursed by Jennifer L. Armentrout

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