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Kelly Sue DeConnick reads post 27, "Exercises," from June 24, 2011. You can read the original blog post here: www.ursulakleguin.com/blog/27-exercises You can find Kelly Sue online at milkfed.us

Amanda Nelson reads post 26, "Against Eisenhower," from June 12, 2011. You can read the original blog post here: www.ursulakleguin.com/blog/26-against-eisenhower Amanda's website is www.theamandanelson.com

Premee Mohamed reads post 25, "Petty Expectations," from June 4, 2011. You can read the original blog post here: www.ursulakleguin.com/blog/25-petty-expectations Premee's website is premeemohamed.com

Maris Kreizman reads post 24, "To Save Free Enterprise, Books Must Die," from May 26, 2011.  You can read the original blog post here: www.ursulakleguin.com/blog/24-to-save-free-enterprise-books-must-die Maris's website is www.mariskreizman.com

Cadwell Turnbull reads post 23, "The Middle of What?," from May 25, 2011. You can read the original blog post here: www.ursulakleguin.com/blog/23-the-middle-of-what Cadwell Turnbull's website is cadwellturnbull.com

R.B. Lemberg reads post 22, "First Contact," from May of 2011. You can read Ursula's original post here: www.ursulakleguin.com/blog/22-first-contact R.B. Lemberg's website is www.rblemberg.net

Nicola Griffith reads post 21, "Beige," from April 22, 2011. You can read the original blog post here: www.ursulakleguin.com/blog/21-beige Nicola Griffith's website is nicolagriffith.com

Kim Stanley Robinson reads post 20, "Unfacts Concerning the Google (Un)Settlement, Part 2," from April 5, 2011. You can read the original blog post here: www.ursulakleguin.com/blog/20-unfacts-concerning-the-google-unsettlement

Kim Stanley Robinson reads post 19, "Unfacts Concerning the Google (Un)Settlement," from March 28, 2011. You can read Ursula's original blog post here: www.ursulakleguin.com/blog/19-unfacts-concerning-the-google-unsettlement

Akemi Tanigaki reads post 18 "To My Readers in Japan" You can read Ursula's original post, from March 14, 2011, here: www.ursulakleguin.com/blog/18-to-my-readers-in-japan

Vajra Chandrasekera reads post 17, "Would You Please F—ing Stop?"  You can read Ursula's original post, from March of 2011, here: www.ursulakleguin.com/blog/17-would-you-please-f*****g-stop Vajra's website is vajra.me

This week, Michelle Ruiz Keil reads post 16, "Uniforms," which Ursula posted in February of 2011. You can read the original post here: www.ursulakleguin.com/blog/16-uniforms Michelle's website is www.michelleruizkeil.com

This week, Morehshin Allahyari reads post 14, "Egypt," and post 15, "Footnote to My Egypt Blog Post." You can read "Egypt" here: www.ursulakleguin.com/blog/14-egypt And you can read "Footnote to My Egypt Blog Post" here: www.ursulakleguin.com/blog/15-footnote-to-my-egypt-blog-post Morehshin Allahyari's website is morehshin.com/

This week we bring you something different: An interview with Martha Ullman West, nationally respected dance critic and author, and a friend of Ursula's for a half century, who died on July 5. The interviews were conducted by Theo Downes-Le Guin in 2022–2023 for a podcast project that never came to fruition. Martha's memories and stories are wonderful, and we hope you'll enjoy them and join us in honoring this remarkable person.

This week, Caroline Le Guin reads Post 13, "The Horsies Upstairs," which Ursula posted in January of 2011. The original post can be read at https://www.ursulakleguin.com/blog/13-the-horsies-upstairs