Hi Hannah, John and Eric, Yes, that is one of the delightful (that is if I actually liked beer) developments in the US in the past 15 years or so: The...
Good to know the US has been getting into microbreweries and quality beer; I'm a British real ale fan myself and recent member of the Campaign for Real Ale...
I think, by definition, that if it was an Oregon beer, it would'nt be mass produced. Sometimes I think it's a pity I don't like beer. Seems like discovering...
did you know that brewing was once quite a female preserve, and there was a word for women who brewed, brewster? Hannah ... From: Diane Severson To:...
... Indeed, and likewise _webster_ 'woman who weaves', _baxter_ 'woman who bakes', both now surviving mostly as surnames (which is why Le Guin's female...
don't immediatley recognise this spider artist -where does she come? ... From: John Cowan To: the-ekumen@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 10:03 AM...
Leese Webster is one of Ms Le Guin's engaging children's books published 1979. I love it. One of my favourite kids books, illustrated by James Brunsman. I was...
Interesting interview on Radio NZ National this morning: http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/20090718 ... Ursula Le Guin: Virgil, fantasy and...
Hey, thanks, and please keep me on your e-mail list! ... From: "Diane Severson" <divadiane@...> To: <the-ekumen@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 15,...
Nathan and friends. . . is this the passage? "You thought, as a boy, that a mage is one who can do anything. So I thought, once. So did we all. And the...
Bingo. Thanks so much for supplying what I was looking for! -Nathan. ... -- Nathan Zamprogno, nathanzamprogno@... Mob: 0412 141 811 "There must, for...
I just finished reading Susanna Clarke's novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, and in doing some follow-up reading I was pleased to see that she gives Le Guin...
Thought people might like to read this http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/29/margaret-atwood-year-of-flood UKL quite often reviews books for the...
... cast on a vast sea, The island names pull at my heart like no others: Roke, Perilans, Osskil...In The Furthes Shore, her heroes sail to the westernmost...
Does anyone remember the weaver "Grandmother Spider Woman" in BUFFALO GALS AND OTHER ANIMAL PRESCENCES? I read this wonderful collection of stories and poetry...
Well I got my copy down from the shelf and looked through the content. And nary a spider grandmother to be seen. It goes - to write nerdy comlete list: ...
ok maybe I didn't remember Buffalo Gals as well as I thought I did have reread the story now, and rediscovered Grandmother Spider Woman. realised that whilst I...
Hi again.............she's at the very ending of Buffalo Gal Won't You Come Out - the Grandmother? our young heroine goes to see just before she returns to her...
My art project for several years has centered around Grandmother Spider Woman, and what UKL did with that myth is fabulous.? Grandmother Spider is kind of the...
... Hi Hannah -- Many moons ago, I created a database on the Yahoo Groups page for the Ekumen that lists all the stories Le Guin has published, including ...
thanks Janice, I remember now seeing this when you did it but had forgotten it was there, one of the things about getting older see it goes right up to 2002,...
Thought you all might be interested in this article in the Guardian, about Kim Stanley Robinson's disgust with the Booker Prize selection process, and judges'...
... Very interesting indeed. Though I find it unfortunate that KSR felt the need to beat up on historical fiction, which is a very close cousin of fantasy and...
It's evident to me that being about "other worlds than this" is not why KSR considers science fiction to be worthy of this kind of honor. (He says nothing...
Couldnšt one think of at least some science fiction as historical fiction set in the future rather than the past? For example KSRšs Mars trilogy or (more to...
Grandmother Spider is, like Coyote, a stock character in Navajo mythology. She protects them and taught them how to weave. When Navajo homemakers find a...
You could look at some SF through the historical fiction lens if you wanted to, and you might even learn a few things thereby. But that has nothing to do with...
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