No Time to Spare

<p><strong>Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Related Book and the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay</strong></p><p><strong>The pages sparkle with lines that make a reader glance up searching for an available ear with which to share them. . . -- Melissa Febos <em>The New York Times Book Review</em> </strong></p><p><strong>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.</strong></p><p><em>Ursula K. Le Guin on the absurdity of denying your age: </em> If I'm ninety and believe I'm forty-five I'm headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub.</p><p><em>On cultural perceptions of fantasy: </em> The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is 'escapism' an accusation of?</p><p><em>On breakfast: </em> Eating an egg from the shell takes not only practice but resolution even courage possibly willingness to commit crime.</p><p>Ursula K. Le Guin took readers to imaginary worlds for decades. In the last great frontier of life old age she explored a new literary territory: the blog a forum where she shined. The collected best of Ursula's blog <em>No Time to Spare</em> presents perfectly crystallized dispatches on what mattered to her late in life her concerns with the world and her wonder at it: How rich we are in knowledge and in all that lies around us yet to learn. Billionaires all of us.</p>