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Ursula K. Le Guin on Being a Woman Science Fiction Author in a Male-Dominated World

Le Guin has a new collection of essays called "Dancing at the Edge of the World," about her life as a writer of genre fiction, her perspective as a woman sci-fi author who is also a mother, and the various tropes she explore in her classic works, like 1969's gender-themed "Left Hand of Darkness."

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Other segments from the episode on March 10, 1989

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, March 10, 1992: Interview with Mike Rose; Commentary on jazz piano music; Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin; Review of Wayne C. Booth's "The Vocation of a Teacher" and…

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