Words Are My Matter

Ursula K. Le Guin

Original title: Words are my matter

earliest edition we have, 2016 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers, 2019 336 pages

Words Are My Matter collects talks, essays, introductions to beloved books, and book reviews by Ursula K. Le Guin, one of our foremost public literary intellectuals. Words Are My Matter is essential reading. It is a manual for investigating the depth and breadth of contemporary fiction — and, through the lens of deep considerations of contemporary writing, a way of exploring the world we are all living in.

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我以文字为业 hardcover · 2023 · 河南文艺出版社 · 525 pages · 9787555914105
Words Are My Matter edition · 2019 · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers · 336 pages · 9780358212102
Words Are My Matter edition · 2019 · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company · 336 pages · 9780358212119
Words are my matter edition · 2016 · Small Beer Press · 316 pages · 9781618731340
Words Are My Matter edition · 2016 · Small Beer Press · 352 pages · 9781618731210

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