<p>From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin and with an introduction by Karen Joy Fowler a collection of thoughts—always adroit often acerbic—on aging belief the state of literature and the state of the nation.</p><p>Ursula K. Le Guin has taken readers to imaginary worlds for decades. Now she's in the last great frontier of life old age and exploring new literary territory: the blog a forum where her voice—sharp witty as compassionate as it is critical—shines.</p><p><i>No Time to Spare</i> collects the best of Ursula's blog presenting perfectly crystallized dispatches on what matters to her now her concerns with this world and her wonder at it.</p><p>On the absurdity of denying your age she says '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>On cultural perceptions of fantasy: 'The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is 'escapism' an accusation of?'</p><p>On her new cat: 'He still won't sit on a lap.I don't know if he ever will. He just doesn't accept the lap hypothesis.'</p><p>On breakfast: 'Eating an egg from the shell takes not only practice but resolution even courage possibly willingness to commit crime.'</p><p>And on all that is unknown all that we discover as we muddle through life: 'How rich we are in knowledge and in all that lies around us yet to learn. Billionaires all of us.'</p>
