Book News: Fishing with Ursula Le Guin, Revising the O.E.D.

The Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing died this weekend. Letters of Note reprints her response to an invitation to be made a Dame: "Surely there is something unlikeable about a person, when old, accepting honours from a institution she attacked when young?" "You go fishing in the Ocean of Story.

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