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Ursula K. Le Guin – RIP
I just learned that Ursula Le Guin has died at the age of 88. She was one of the shining lights of science fiction and fantasy, and will be missed. From The Dispossed to The Left Hand of Darkness to her Earth sea series, and essays on writing and other subjects, she brought a sharp mind and a way with words that were unparalleled. She will be missed, but leaves a great legacy, which I will be enjoying throughout the rest of the year.
NPR obituary
Beyond The Empire – K. B. Wagers
Beyond The Empire is the third book in a trilogy, and it’s just as good as the first two. I recommend the whole series, basically because you won’t know what’s going on in this one without reading the other two. You won’t be disappointed if you like space opera, military SF, or grand sweeping stories. I actually anticipated each book, luckily she writes faster than George RR Martin. Now I’m anticipating the new series with Hail and crew The Farian Wars, release date not announced. 🙁
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You can get the whole series on Kindle here: The Indranan War (3 Book Series)
Annie Dillard – The Writing Life
The description below pretty much says it. Except that Dillard can really turn a phrase.
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Ursula K Le Guin – No Time To Spare
A nice book of essays from Le Guin. Taken from her blog. The first section on aging is basically worth the price of the book.
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King
Ink portrait of MLK for Martin Luther King Day. 6×4 inches Ink on watercolor paper.
6×4 inches
Ink on Watercolor Paper
Jay Defeo and The Rose
Jay Defeo worked on the massive painting, The Rose, for 8 years. When it was removed from her apartment, it basically went into storage for almost 30 years, before being restored and conserved by the Whitney museum.The artist never got to see her most famous piece hanging in a museum like she wanted. This book of essays, and photos, gives a good overview of The Rose’s and Jay Defeo’s place in art history.
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Rarely is an artist so closely associated with a single work as is Jay DeFeo with her monumental painting The Rose. Begun in the late 1950s, when DeFeo, a central figure of the Beat generation of San Francisco, was just starting to garner widespread national recognition, the visionary work occupied the artist for eight years. Massive in scale, layered with nearly two thousand pounds of paint, the overpowering painting was already famous before its first exhibition in 1969 at the Pasadena Art Museum. Continue reading Jay Defeo and The Rose
Dead Tree Standing
Drawing from today. Kinda how I feel. Click on it for a pretty pop-up view.
Graphite on Paper
Chuck Close: Work
This is not a book, it’s a TOME. It’s 12x14x2 inches and you could kill a cat with it. I read Finch’s Chuck Close: Life before this, so there’s a lot that is already covered, but this book is worth it for the giant pictures, and more detail on process. This is the 2010 edition, there is a newer one that updates to 2014 (I think), but there doesn’t seem to be that much more in it, just a few more pages.
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The Principles of Uncertainty
This is a great Artist’s memoir, with nice art, and text that ties in history with biography and travel. It’s a fast read also.
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