Author:        Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018, author.
Uniform Title: Works. Selections
Title:         Words are my matter [sound recording] : writings
                  about life and books, 2000-2016 with a journal of a writer's
                  week / Ursula K. Le Guin.
Published:     Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for
                  the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress,
                  2017 (Potomac Talking Book Services, recording studio)
Description:   1 online resource (audio (13 hours, 2 minutes))
Book Number:   DB 87601
Dewey No.:     818.5409 ANF 23
Notes:         Includes bibliographical references.
               Foreword -- Talks, essays, and occasional pieces.
                  The operating instructions ; What it was like ; Genre: a word
                  only a Frenchman could love ; "Things not actually present" ;
                  A response, by ansible, from Tau Ceti ; The beast in the book
                  ; Inventing languages ; How to read a poem: "Gray goose and
                  gander" ; On David Hensel's submission to the Royal Academy
                  of Art ; On serious literature ; Teasing myself out of
                  thought ; Living in a work of art ; Staying awake ; Great
                  nature's second course ; What women know ; Disappearing
                  grandmothers ; Learning to write science fiction from
                  Virginia Woolf ; The death of the book ; Le Guin's hypothesis
                  ; Making up stories ; Freedom -- Book introductions and notes
                  on writers. A very good American novel: H. L. Davis's Honey
                  in the Horn ; Philip K. Dick: The Man in the High Castle ;
                  Huxley's bad trip ; Stanislaw Lem: Solaris ; George
                  MacDonald: The Princess and the Goblin ; The wild winds of
                  possibility: Vonda McIntyre's Dreamsnake ; Getting it right:
                  Charles L. McNichols's Crazy Weather ; On Pasternak's Doctor
                  Zhivago ; Examples of dignity: thoughts on the works of José
                  Saramago ; Arkady and Boris Strugatsky: Roadside Picnic ;
                  Jack Vance: The Languages of Pao ; H. G. Wells: The First Men
                  in the Moon ; H. G. Wells: The Time Machine ; Wells's worlds
                  -- Book reviews. Margaret Atwood: Moral Disorder ; Margaret
                  Atwood: The Year of the Flood ; Margaret Atwood: Stone
                  Mattress ; J. G. Ballard: Kingdom Come ; Roberto Bolaño:
                  Monsieur Pain ; T. C. Boyle: When the Killing's Done ;
                  Geraldine Brooks: People of the Book ; Italo Calvino: The
                  Complete Cosmicomics ; Margaret Drabble: The Sea Lady ; Carol
                  Emshwiller: Ledoyt ; Alan Garner: Boneland ; Kent Haruf:
                  Benediction ; Kent Haruf: Our Souls at Night ; Tove Jansson:
                  The True Deceiver ; Barbara Kingsolver: Flight Behavior ;
                  Chang-Rae Lee: On Such a Full Sea ; Doris Lessing: The Cleft
                  ; Donna Leon: Suffer the Little Children ; Yann Martel: The
                  High Mountains of Portugal ; China Miéville: Embassytown ;
                  China Miéville: Three Moments of an Explosion ; David
                  Mitchell: The Bone Clocks ; Jan Morris: Hav ; Julie Otsuka:
                  The Buddha in the Attic ; Salman Rushdie: The Enchantress of
                  Florence ; Salman Rushdie: Two Years, Eight Months, and
                  Twenty-Eight Nights ; José Saramago: Raised from the Ground
                  ; José Saramago: Skylight ; Sylvia Townsend Warner: Dorset
                  Stories ; Jo Walton: Among Others ; Jeanette Winterson: The
                  Stone Gods ; Stefan Zweig: The Post Office Girl -- The Hope
                  of Rabbits: A Journal of a Writer's Week.
               Availability restricted to persons meeting the
                  eligibility requirements of the National Library Service for
                  the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.
               Narrated by: Faith Potts.
               Digital talking book. 3 levels and 108 navigation
                  points. Digitally mastered.
               A collection of talks, essays, introductions, and
                  book reviews from the well-known award-winning science
                  fiction author. These pieces focus on investigating the depth
                  and breadth of contemporary fiction to explore the world
                  through the lens of deep consideration. 2016.
               Female narrator. NLS/BPH
               Recorded from: First edition. Easthampton, MA :
                  Small Beer Press, [2016] 9781618731340.
               Full audio with structure.
               System requirements: NLS authorized digital
                  talking book (dtb) player. Web version requires Internet
                  access, BARD password and NLS authorized digital talking book
                  player. Contact your cooperating library or the National
                  Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped,
                  Library of Congress, for more information.
               2016 Ursula K. Le Guin
               This collection of Ursula K. Le Guin's recent
                  talks, essays, introductions is the best manual we have for
                  exploring the worlds explored in recent fiction; the most
                  useful guide to the country we're visiting, life.
               3 108 DM
               dbcurrent
Subjects:      American essays.
               Downloadable books.
               Nonfiction.
               Essays. lcgft
               Talking books. lcgft
Other authors: Potts, Faith, narrator.
Location:      DLC-B DB 87601 NLS/BPH
Control No.:   967333
Access:        Downloadable talking book.
    Location:  http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.87601