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Jul 13 03: seasons
Made two deeee-lightful discoveries this evening. First, that Ursula Le Guin’s new collection of short works is out. The book, Changing Planes, is a series of the anthropological fictions that Ms. Le Guin does better than anybody else. She writes compassionate, wise studies of beings who live in worlds like or unlike our own but who (though they may have feathers or fins or mechanical hearts) give us a deeper understanding of what it means to be human. (How do I love Always Coming Home? Let me count the ways.) Can’t wait to pick it up. One of the stories, “Seasons of the Anserac”, is online; I’ve read it a half-dozen times since I stumbled across it several months back, and I found it as moving the last time as I did the first.
Second, I found out that Coliseum Books has re-opened at long last in its new digs on 42nd Street, across from Bryant Park. It closed—what, a year and a half ago? Two years?—when it lost its lease, and readers all over town mourned. Now NYC’s best independent book emporium has returned to us: cause indeed for rejoicing.
Guess what I’m doing tomorrow?