Zadie Smith, author of bestsellers like NW and White Teeth, is in the process of writing a fantasy-inspired book. According to a recent article in the London Evening Standard, the Jamaican-English writer has been reading a lot of Ursula K. Le Guin (best known for her Earthsea series, or my personal favorite, the Catwings tales): “It’s a concept novel,” Smith […]
I have an ever-growing collection of horrific paperback editions of Ursula K. Le Guin’s work. She’s my favorite writer, so that explains some of the impulse; I dig the artifacts of decades of publication history. Garish art, yellowing pages, failing spines threatening to turn the book into an unfixable mess of out-of-order pages: these are […]