![]() ![]() This kind of economic scarcity causes us, as a larger reading community, to scrutinize the works afresh. What we have is all we have to measure that writer’s worth, influence, and impact. ![]() ![]() Their works are then considered as having been either ahead of their time or finally ripe for a new “moment.”ĭeath also brings a different kind of attention and value to the writer’s works because he or she is now no longer there to create more. Entirely or mostly ignored in their lifetimes, they gain a certain cult-like readership after their deaths. Some writers, as Nietzsche famously wrote, have only been born posthumously. Le Guin did when she passed away in January. Particularly so when they have left us such a vast, rich legacy of their many works as Ursula K. We appreciate writers and artists more with their passing. Jenny Bhatt explores Le Guin’s writing, with particular focus on that remarkable collection. Le Guin, the renowned science fiction writer who died in January, was awarded the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay for No Time to Spare, a collection of ruminations on aging and the universe. ![]()
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