Books from Karen Joy Fowler's Crafting with Ursula Conversation
By Between the Covers Podcast
By Between the Covers Podcast
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Karen Joy Fowler
$18.00 $16.74Fowler's PEN/Faulkner Award-winning novel inspired by the Kellogg Experiment that we discuss at length at the beginning of our conversations
The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin (Reprint)
Ursula K. Le Guin
$21.99 $20.45Le Guin's stories "Mazes," "The Poacher" and "She Unnames Them" can all be found here
The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
Ursula K. Le Guin
$22.95 $21.34Le Guin's essay "The Wilderness Within" about the inspirations for her story "The Poacher" can be found here
What I Didn't See and Other Stories
Karen Joy Fowler
$16.00 $14.88Karen's Nebula-Award winning story (the one influenced by Donna Haraway and James Tiptree Jr.'s mother) "What I Didn't See" can be found in this World Fantasy Award-winning collection
No Time to Spare: Thinking about What Matters
Ursula K. Le Guin
$15.99 $14.87Fowler wrote the preface for Le Guin's last essay collection, and reads from Le Guin's essay on a rattlesnake encounter for us
Late in the Day: Poems 2010-2014
Ursula K. Le Guin
$21.95 $20.41Le Guin's speech (half of which I play during the conversation) "Deep in Admiration" is the preface to this poetry collection
80!: Memories & Reflections on Ursula K. Le Guin
Karen Joy Fowler
$19.00The celebration of Ursula, given to Le Guin on her 80th birthday, and co-edited by Fowler
Science of Herself
Karen Joy Fowler
$12.00 $11.16This contains Fowler's essay "The Motherhood Statement" and also her story about the pioneering paleontologist Mary Anning
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Frans de Waal
$16.95 $15.76One of many Franz de Waal's books
What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions?: Volume 38
Vinciane Despret
$36.00One of many scholarly works, arranged as an abecedary, looking at the biases baked into the way we study animals
Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing
David Naimon and Ursula K. Le Guin
$14.95 $13.90All of the excerpts of Le Guin speaking that I play during these conversations can also be found here also, in written form
Experimental Animals: (A Reality Fiction)
Thalia Field
$23.00Fowler blurbed this incredible book by Thalia Field. I highly recommend it and also Thalia's appearance on Between the Covers
The Once and Future King
T. H. White
$26.00 $24.18We talk briefly about the importance of T.H. White for Le Guin and Fowler
Changing Planes: Stories
Ursula K. Le Guin and Eric Beddows
$15.99 $14.87Fowler wrote the preface for this book, which like Becky Chambers, is one of her favorite of Le Guin's books
My Real Children
Jo Walton
$18.99 $17.66The Jo Walton novel i mention (that won the James Tiptree Jr. Award with two parallel alternate timelines of 20th century feminism)