henna day post

[gwynnega]

I am hennaing my hair on a hot Los Angeles afternoon. We've had cold (for LA) weather, along with some rain, but now it's hot and bone-dry. Yesterday I finally got a long-overdue haircut, which I'm especially pleased about now that the weather has veered into summer.

I mentioned in a previous post that I have a poem in the latest issue of The Cascadia Subduction Zone, but when my paper copy arrived the other day, I read Julie Phillips' essay "'I Begin to Meet You at Last': On the Tiptree-Russ-Le Guin Correspondence," and it's fantastic. (It looks like you can watch Phillips read the essay here; there's also a link on the page to video of Ursula Le Guin reading the letter she wrote to Alice Sheldon after she "came out" as Tiptree.)

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[kore]

Ursula Le Guin reading the letter she wrote to Alice Sheldon after she "came out" as Tiptree

Oh wow, that's amazing.

I did have problems with that biography, altho apparently now it's the standard read on her life and likely the only one we're going to get, sigh.

[gwynnega]

I hope someday there will be a book of the Tiptree-Russ-Le Guin letters.