August 24, 2026

Ursula K. Le Guin interview

Between the Covers · Ursula K. Le Guin · 1 hr 30 min

Why we chose this episode

A slow, generous conversation with a writer who spent her life insisting that imagination is a moral faculty. David Naimon asks real questions and then, rarely for an interviewer, gets out of the way.

Listen for this question

What are you making that does not need to be useful?

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Who it’s for: Anyone who makes things and wants to hear an old master talk about it without ego.

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After the episode

Write two hundred words nobody will read.

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