5/10/2023 0 Comments The dispossessed bookGrappling with Pandemic: An Interview with Poet Robert Carr.A Poem Born from a Single Image: In Conversation with John Sibley Williams, Author of The Drowning House.It’s Never Too Late: A Conversation with Wendy Drexler, Author of Notes from the Column of Memory.Next Post Next Review of Mark of Voodoo, by Sharon Caulder View the full speech via this link, or embedded below: Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximize corporate profits and advertising revenue is not quite the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship.” Right now, I think we need writers who know the difference between the production of a market commodity and the practice of an art. “We need writers who can remember freedom: poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality. Anyone who’s read The Dispossessed will recognize the philosophy of the Odonians in the following excerpt from that speech: On Anarres, it is an insult of the highest order to call someone a profiteer. In her 2014 acceptance speech for the National Book Award, LeGuin used the word “profiteers” to refer to the increasingly money-focused publishing industry. As Shevek travels between the two worlds, his journey sheds light on the wonders and flaws of each. Shevek leaves Urras because his work as a physicist isn’t considered “central” by Odionian society, but he struggles to maintain his ideals and his identity on a planet that grants him luxury and wealth while forcing others to live in hardship and poverty.
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