Author: Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018, author. Uniform Title: Essays. Selections Title: No time to spare [sound recording] : thinking about what matters / Ursula K. Le Guin ; introduction by Karen Joy Fowler. Published: Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, 2018 (American Printing House for the Blind, recording studio) Description: 1 online resource (audio (6 hours, 36 minutes)) Book Number: DB 90162 Dewey No.: 814.54 ANF 23 Notes: Writer of introduction taken from dust jacket. Introduction / by Karen Joy Fowler -- A note at the beginning -- Part one. Going over eighty. In your spare time ; The sissy strikes back ; The diminished thing ; Catching up, ha ha -- The Annals of Pard. Choosing a cat ; Chosen by a cat -- Part two. The lit biz. Would you please fucking stop? ; Readers' questions ; Kids' letters ; Having my cake ; Papa H ; A much-needed literary award ; TGAN and TGOW ; TGAN again ; The narrative gift as a moral conundrum ; It doesn't have to be the way it is ; Utopiyin, utopiyang -- The Annals of Pard. The trouble ; Pard and the time machine -- Part three. Trying to make sense of it. A band of brothers, a stream of sisters ; Exorcists ; Uniforms ; Clinging desperately to a metaphor ; Lying it all away ; The inner child and the nude politician ; A modest proposal: vegempathy ; Belief in belief ; About anger -- The Annals of Pard. An unfinished education ; An unfinished education, continued ; Doggerel for my cat -- Part four. Rewards. The circling stars, the sea surrounding: Philip Glass and John Luther Adams ; Rehearsal ; Someone named Delores ; Without egg ; Notre-Dame de la Faim ; The tree ; The horsies upstairs ; First contact ; The lynx ; Notes from a week at a ranch in the Oregon high desert. Availability restricted to persons meeting the eligibility requirements of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress. Narrated by: Kerry Dukin. Digital talking book. 3 levels and 56 navigation points. Digitally mastered. A collection of essays from the award-winning author's blog on a wide variety of subjects. Topics include aging, belief, the state of literature, politics, and more. Some strong language. 2017. Female narrator. NLS/BPH Contains some strong language. NLS/BPH Recorded from: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. 9781328661593. 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. Full audio with structure. 2017 Ursula K. Le Guin "From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, a collection of thoughts--always adroit, often acerbic--on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation"-- Provided by publisher. 3 56 DM dbcurrent Subjects: Aging. Literature. Old age. United States -- Civilization. Downloadable books. Nonfiction. Talking books. lcgft Other authors: Dukin, Kerry, narrator. Fowler, Karen Joy, writer of introduction. Location: DLC-B DB 90162 NLS/BPH Control No.: 990346 Access: Downloadable talking book. Location: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.90162