I discovered Le Guin’s The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction in a YouTube interview with Moira Davies, where she mentioned having read it recently and how glad she was to have done so.
It’s like it’s an incredible manifesto and like if only the whole world could read it. Like maybe we would be maybe we’d be in a different we’d be in a different place.
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