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Ursula K. Le Guin At The National Book Awards

November 23, 2014

Ursula Le Guin hit it out of the park, with her speech, at the National Book awards. Her speech in defense of Science-Fiction/Fantasy writers as the "realists of a larger reality," and her impassioned call for writers to stop allowing themselves to be "sold like deodorant" really takes the cake.

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