"Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the
art of words."
--Ursula K. Le Guin
When she began writing in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin was as much of a
literary outsider as one can be: a woman writing in a landscape
dominated by men, a science fiction and fantasy author in an era that
dismissed "genre" literature as unserious, and a westerner living far
from fashionable East Coast publishing circles. The interviews collected
here--spanning a remarkable forty years of productivity, and covering
everything from her Berkeley childhood to Le Guin envisioning the end of
capitalism--highlight that unique perspective, which conjured some of
the most prescient and lasting books in modern literature.