![]() ![]() Like any great writer who finds her prompts in the most improbable of places, Le Guin springboards into the existential while answering a questionnaire mailed to the Harvard class of 1951 - alumni who, if living, would all be in their eighties. Two decades after her nuanced meditation on growing older, Le Guin revisits the subject from another angle, perhaps the most perspectival angle there is - the question of how we measure the light of a life as it nears its sunset. ![]() In her final years, Le Guin examined what makes life worth living in a splendid piece full of her wakeful, winkful wisdom, titled “In Your Spare Time” and included as the opening essay in No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters ( public library) - the final nonfiction collection published in her lifetime, which also gave us Le Guin on the uses and misuses of anger. Le Guin (October 21, 1929–January 22, 2018) was one.Ī fierce thinker and largehearted, beautiful writer who considered writing an act of falling in love, Le Guin left behind a vast, varied body of work and wisdom, stretching from her illuminations of the artist’s task and storytelling as an instrument of freedom to her advocacy for public libraries to her feminist translation of the Tao Te Ching and her classic unsexing of gender. In praise of the mundane, unquantifiable, impractical activities that feed creative work and fill life with meaning. ![]()
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