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• xiii • Introduction (No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters) • (2017) • essay by Karen Joy Fowler
• xix • A Note at the Beginning • non-genre • (2010) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 1 • In Your Spare Time • non-genre • (2010) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 8 • The Sissy Strikes Back • non-genre • (2010) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 12 • The Diminshed Thing • non-genre • (2013) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 18 • Catching Up, Ha Ha • non-genre • (2014) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 23 • Choosing a Cat • non-genre • (2012) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 29 • Chosen by a Cat • non-genre • (2012) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 35 • Would You Please Fucking Stop? • non-genre • (2011) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 39 • Readers' Questions • (2011) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 44 • Kids' Letters • (2013) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 48 • Having My Cake • non-genre • (2012) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 53 • Papa H • (2013) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 59 • A Much-Needed Literary Award • non-genre • (2013) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 63 • TGAN and TGOW • non-genre • (2011) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 69 • TGAN Again • non-genre • (2013) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 74 • The Narrative Gift as a Moral Conundrum • non-genre • (2012) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 80 • It Doesn't Have to Be the Way It Is • (2011) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 85 • Utopiyin, Utopiyang • (2015) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 91 • The Trouble • non-genre • (2013) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 95 • Pard and the Time Machine • non-genre • (2014) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 101 • A Band of Brothers, a Stream of Sisters • non-genre • (2010) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 105 • Exorcists • non-genre • (2010) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 107 • Uniforms • non-genre • (2011) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 111 • Clinging Desperately to a Metaphor • non-genre • (2011) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 115 • Lying It All Away • non-genre • (2012) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 120 • The Inner Child and the Nude Politician • non-genre • (2014) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 128 • A Modest Proposal: Vegempathy • non-genre • (2012) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 131 • Belief in Belief • non-genre • (2014) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 136 • About Anger • non-genre • (2014) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 147 • An Unfinished Education • non-genre • (2015) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 150 • An Unfinished Education, Continued • non-genre • (2016) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 154 • Doggerel for My Cat • non-genre • (2017) • poem by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 159 • The Circling Stars, the Sea Surrounding: Philip Glass and John Luther Adams • non-genre • (2014) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 164 • Rehearsal • non-genre • (2013) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 166 • Someone Named Delores • non-genre • (2010) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 173 • Without Egg • non-genre • (2011) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 179 • Notre-Dame de la Faim • non-genre • (2011) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 184 • The Tree • non-genre • (2011) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 188 • The Horsies Upstairs • non-genre • (2011) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 197 • First Contact • non-genre • (2011) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 201 • The Lynx • non-genre • (2010) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 210 • Notes from a Week at a Ranch in the Oregon High Desert • non-genre • (2013) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin