The National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
Growth capitalism is by nature inimical to the craftsman and the artist.
Ursula K. Le Guin • Words Are My Matter: Writings on Life and Books
And this is where patronage matters. This is where we remember that while money may be tangled in systems of power, it can also be a conduit for possibility. Historically, the greatest works of art, literature, and music were not birthed in a vacuum of self-sufficiency. They were financed, supported, and protected by those with means – Medici famil... See more
Money Mirage
I reread Ursula Le Guin’sEarthsea quartet, her ideas about shadow selves, our fears, running away, then turning and hunting down what terrifies us made perfect sense to me. Her Earthsea is another world, perfectly delineated in a map I studied again and again. Years later I read how and when she had created those maps: in her kitchen, on a roll of
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