▶ Ursula Le Guin’s Viral Video: “We Will Need Writers Who Can Remember Freedom”

Bill Moyers interview with Ursula K. LeGuin about “Lathe of Heaven”

By BillMoyers.com Staff December 27, 2014

In the midst of all the end-of-the-year lists and reminiscences, there is a speech that made the social media rounds recently that we thought deserved a special mention here at BillMoyers.com.

In accepting the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters at this year’s National Book Awards, eminent sci-fi writer Ursula Le Guin made a knock-out speech about the power of capitalism, literature and imagination that, as she put it afterwards, “went sort-of viral on YouTube.”

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