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LeGuin Quits Authors Guild Over Google Settlement
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Ursula LeGuin resigned from the Authors Guild on December 18 in protest of its acceptance of the amended Google book search settlement. The full text of the letter has been published on her website. LeGuin emphasized that she is continuing her membership in SFWA and the National Writers Union, both part of the ...16 hours ago -
Le Guin resigning from Authors Guild
Celsius1414 —
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From Publishers Weekly, the news that Ursula K. Le Guin is taking a stand over the recent Google Book Search Settlement ( described at Wikipedia ). Bestselling and award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin, whose membership in the Authors Guild dates back to 1972, has resigned from the organization, citing her ...18 hours ago -
Le Guin accuses Authors Guild of deal with the devil
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Ursula K Le Guin has resigned from the writers organisation in protest at settlement with Google over digitisation Ursula K Le Guin has accused the Authors Guild of selling authors "down the river" in the Google settlement and has resigned from the US writers body in protest after almost 40 years membership. In a ...2 days ago -
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Sirens of Titan
Celsius1414 —
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As part of my anniversary-themed 2009 book list, I re-read Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (30th - 1979) and Sirens of Titan (50th - 1959) over the last couple of days and was noticing some similar themes and reminiscent imagery between them. Lo and behold, via Wikipedia : In a 1979 interview released in ...3 days ago -
What Now? A Post-Apocalyptic Reading List
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Cover of Earth Abides Between the movie 2012 and the actual year 2012 looming on the horizon, global warming summits and Viggo Mortensen heading down The Road , the apocalypse has been on a lot of minds lately. But if you’re one of the (un)lucky ones to survive the actual big event, then what should you do? ...1 week ago -
Monday Miscellany
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Kitsune Noir Poster Club — Artists Frank Chimero , Mark Weaver , Jez Burrows , Cody Hoyt and Garrett Vander Leun reinterpret their favourite books as prints for Kitsune Noir . (Frank Chimero’s Slaughterhouse Five is pictured above). And on the subject of posters… Penguin US have made the ...1 week ago -
Frequent function forsaken and the fractioned-phallus fallacy, Plus ça climate change, Tortured Tolstoys, Treasure Tove, and Tillyard on tarts in the TLS
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“A paean to the penis offers much unintentional hilarity, says Leo Benedictus ” (reviewing Manhood: the Rise and Fall of the Penis by Mels van Driel in the Observer ): Why is there almost nothing on the penis’s most frequent function, as a conduit of urine? And as for rigour, well I am no urologist, but I ...1 week ago -
Using Storytelling As a Tool to Change Your Life by Nigel Baldwin
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The American poet and political activist Muriel Rukeyser said “The universe is made of stories, not atoms.” Ursula K. LeGuin has been quoted as saying “There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.” And yes, alright, they are both quotes ...2 weeks ago -
Seeing Blankers
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It’s hard not to gallop through prose that uses commas instead of full stops, but once I learned to slow down, the rewards piled up: his sound, sweet humour, his startling imagination, his admirable dogs and lovers, the subtle, honest workings of his mind. Here indeed was a novelist worthy of a reader’s trust. So ...4 weeks ago
