Words Are My Matter: Writings on Life and Books

<b>A collection of essays on life and literature, from one of the most iconic authors and astute critics in contemporary letters.</b><br /><br /><i>Words Are My Matter</i> is essential reading: a collection of talks, essays, and criticism by Ursula K. Le Guin, a literary legend and unparalleled voice of our social conscience. Here she investigates the depth and breadth of contemporary fiction—and, through the lens of literature, gives us a way of exploring the world around us.<br />  <br /> In “Freedom,” Le Guin notes: “Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now … to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We’ll need writers who can remember freedom—poets, visionaries—realists of a larger reality.”<br /><br /> Le Guin was one of those authors and in <i>Words Are My Matter</i> she gives us just that: a vision of a better reality, fueled by the power and might and hope of language and literature.