{"product_id":"9781328507976","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":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42370825486397,"sku":"9781328507976","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781328507976_p0.jpg?v=1771569658","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/9781328507976","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}