“I was and am delighted that they will be publishing my, but I wanted to start with something less definable, and dating back earlier in my life,” she said. Its lack of dragons and spaceships may surprise some, but that’s the point. The compendium, which could be classified as historical fiction, includes a novel, short stories and songs set in the titular fictional middle European country over the last two centuries. With the release of The Complete Orsinia, Le Guin joined Philip Roth as one of only two living novelists published by the Library of America. Too many critics and teachers ignored – were ignorant of – any kind of fiction but realism.” Too many imaginative babies were going out with the bathwater. “But by making that one genre the standard of quality, by limiting literature to it, we were leaving too much serious writing out of serious consideration. “Realism is a genre – a very rich one, that gave us and continues to give us lots of great fiction,” the 86-year-old writer told the Guardian. It’s a season of celebrating Le Guin’s versatility and respect for all genres. The Complete Orsinia (Library of America) was released 6 September and Words are My Matter (Small Beer Press) was released 19 September. Fortunately for readers, two new books debuted on Tuesday, The Unreal and the Real and The Found and the Lost (both by Saga Press).
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