{"product_id":"no-time-to-spare-thinking-about-what-matters-1","title":"No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Hugo Award for Best Related Book and the PEN\/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The pages sparkle with lines that make a reader glance up, searching for an available ear with which to share them. . . \" — Melissa Febos, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, a collection of thoughts—always adroit, often acerbic—on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUrsula K. Le Guin on the absurdity of denying your age:\u003c\/em\u003e “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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn cultural perceptions of fantasy:\u003c\/em\u003e “The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is ‘escapism’ an accusation of?”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn breakfast:\u003c\/em\u003e “Eating an egg from the shell takes not only practice, but resolution, even courage, possibly willingness to commit crime.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUrsula K. Le Guin took readers to imaginary worlds for decades. In the last great frontier of life, old age, she explored a new literary territory: the blog, a forum where she shined. The collected best of Ursula’s blog, \u003cem\u003eNo Time to Spare\u003c\/em\u003e presents perfectly crystallized dispatches on what mattered to her late in life, her concerns with the world, and her wonder at it: “How rich we are in knowledge, and in all that lies around us yet to learn. Billionaires, all of us.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ursula K. Le Guin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":51671037215026,"sku":"9781328661593","price":17.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":52344455233842,"sku":"9781328507976","price":15.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0988\/7934\/0850\/files\/9781328661593.jpg?v=1787960026","url":"https:\/\/53rdstreetbooks.com\/products\/no-time-to-spare-thinking-about-what-matters-1","provider":"53rd Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}