Le Guin Part 5: Q&A
Listeners offer their questions from narrator trust to activism to teaching controversy. I rant–or respond–back.
Le Guin Part 4: The Ones Who Stay – N. K. Jemisin
Can we pull this utopia dilemma together? Or will we add even more levels of complication?
Le Guin Part 3: The Reader’s Labyrinth
Sure, the Omelas dilemma is tough, but at least we have our narrator as ally, right? Right? Perhaps the real horror in Omelas has less to do with the child at its center.
Le Guin 2: Architectures of Happiness
Is this story really about that suffering child? Or is it more about how we wall its suffering out, then invite it back in?
Le Guin 1: The Hideous Bargain
At last we settle in to think about Le Guin’s Omelas story and set aside some common approaches to it. The first of several parts.
Gardens of Imagination – Narrative Utopias
Let’s niche down into a small sub-genre of fantasy and explore our desire for it, the classic utopia!
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