{"id":6025,"date":"2014-11-20T20:14:18","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T01:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6025"},"modified":"2014-11-20T20:14:18","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T01:14:18","slug":"le-guin-resistance-and-change-often-begin-in-the-art-of-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6025","title":{"rendered":"Le Guin: ‘Resistance and Change Often Begin in the Art of Words’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Author Ursula Le Guin received the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters at this week’s National Book Awards and inspired the crowd by holding up freedom as an author’s best prize. “We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries\u2014the realists of a larger reality<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

She said many things needed to change, and that change often begins in art, specifically the art of words. Writing books according to marketing formulas for corporate profit is a rotten idea, she said. We need artists.<\/p>\n

Her speech was short, so you can easily watch the whole thing here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In an interview, Le Guin said, \u201cIf you\u2019re going to create a world out of whole cloth, that is to say, out of words, then you better get the words right.\u201d You can read about her and her many books<\/a> in The Guardian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Author Ursula Le Guin received the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters at this week’s National Book Awards and inspired the crowd by holding up freedom as an author’s best prize. “We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries\u2014the realists of a larger reality.” She said many things needed to change, and … Continue reading Le Guin: ‘Resistance and Change Often Begin in the Art of Words’<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-bookselling","category-publishing"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}