No Time To Spare

The pages sparkle with lines that make a reader glance up, searching for an available ear with which to share them ― New York Times Book Review

Intelligence gleams in these essays ― New York Times

Might there be truth to the commonplace that science fiction writers are prophets? . . . A year ago I argued that Le Guin deserved a Nobel Prize in literature. In fact - what a fantasy! - she ought to be running the country ― Washington Post

There are shades of Adrienne Rich here . . . At the end of No Time to Spare . . . all I could think was: I want Le Guin to keep going, on and on. I want to read more ― LA Times

This delightful book [is] inquisitive and stroppily opinionated in equal measure . . . In even these miscellanies, composed in [Le Guin's] off hours, the sentences are perfectly balanced and the language chosen with care ― Wall Street Journal

[Le Guin's] clever observations and sharp, nimble prose provide a window into the interior life of the award-winning novelist ― Harper's Bazaar

Erudite, witty and . . . wise . . . Deep down there: that is where Le Guin has taken readers for decade after decade, and where, these essays show, she is capable of taking them still ― Chicago Tribune

The pages pop with life, even as Le Guin, ever sassy, reckons with the toils of aging . . . Young when she's old, spry when she's stiff ― Wired