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10 POINT 5 was a quarterly magazine of the arts in Eugene, Oregon. Its name came from the number of cycles per second that is the median alpha wave frequency of the human brain. The magazine published seven issues between early 1976 to summer 1978.

GEORGE WICKES and LOUISE WESTLING are retired University of Oregon English professors. Westling is the author of The Green Breast of the New World. Wickes wrote Americans in Paris and edited three collections of Henry Miller’s letters.

NORA GALLAGHER writes memoir and fiction. She’s the author recently of the memoir Moonlight Sonata at Mayo Clinic and the novel Changing Light.

DOROTHY GILBERT was a programmer and interviewer at radio station KPFA in Berkeley for ten years in the 1970s and 1980s. She was for many years on the staff of PEN America and has taught English at UC Berkeley. She has published two award-winning translations from Old French, poems in numerous journals, and science fiction.

NICK GEVERS is a critic and editor specializing in science fiction and fantasy. He has published hundreds of book reviews and scores of author interviews, and edited many anthologies, including the Shirley Jackson Award–winning Ghosts by Gaslight (with Jack Dann). He lives in Cape Town, South Africa.

BRIDGET HUBER is a journalist and researcher based in France. Her work has been published or broadcast by Public Radio International, The Lancet, The New York Times, Mother Jones, California Sunday Magazine, and National Public Radio, among others.

DAVID STREITFELD is the editor of The Last Interview books on Gabriel Garcia Marquez, J. D. Salinger, Philip K. Dick, Hunter Thompson, and, in its expanded form, David Foster Wallace. All were published by Melville House. He is a reporter for The New York Times, where in 2013 he was part of the team awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his family and too many books.

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Copyright

URSULA K. LE GUIN: THE LAST INTERVIEW AND OTHER CONVERSATIONS

Copyright © 2019 by Melville House Publishing

First Melville House printing: February 2019

Introduction copyright © 2018 by David Streitfeld

“The Gift of Place” © 1977 by Oz Publications, Inc. First published in 10 Point 5 Magazine, Spring 1977. Reprinted by permission of interviewers Alison Halderman, David Zeltzer and Karen McPherson.

“Naming Magic” © 1978 by Dorothy Gilbert. First published in California Quarterly, No. 13/14, Spring/Summer 1978.

“There is more than one way to see” © 1982 by George Wickes and Louise Westling. First published in Northwest Review, Vol. 20, Nos. 2 and 3.

“In a World of Her Own” © 1984 by Nora Gallagher. First published in Mother Jones, January 1984 as “Ursula Le Guin: In a World of Her Own.”

“Driven by a Different Chauffeur” © 2001 by Nick Gevers. First published by SF Site, a web magazine, in its November/December 2001 issue.

“Song of Herself” © 2013 by Bridget Huber. First published in California Magazine, Spring 2013.

“Homeward Bound” © 2018 by David Streitfeld.

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