{"id":1391,"date":"2026-04-05T03:32:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T19:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/ursula-k-le-guins-blog-has-been-turned-into-a-podcast\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T03:32:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T19:32:57","slug":"ursula-k-le-guins-blog-has-been-turned-into-a-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/ursula-k-le-guins-blog-has-been-turned-into-a-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Ursula K. Le Guin&#8217;s blog has been turned into a podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who will never tire of the words of Ursula K. Le Guin, a special treat is on the way. The esteemed late author&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ursulakleguin.com\/blog\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\">blog<\/a>, which she started in 2010 at the age of 81, is being rereleased as a podcast, <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/inyoursparetime.libsyn.com\/trailer\" data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\"><em>In Your Spare Time<\/em><\/a>. Le Guin&#8217;s blog ran until 2017, and a <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"link rapid-with-clickid\" href=\"https:\/\/shopping.yahoo.com\/rdlw?merchantId=9db8d14c-9935-42a7-8088-54e01b60ae32&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=1edd49a1-7dd3-41a4-925c-c919d3bce458&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Bookshop&amp;linkText=book&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAVEaxQuxjG2gUOvkWo20jFmVzQUE7ZL55BkSjHmhzS9B&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fbookshop.org%2Fp%2Fbooks%2Fno-time-to-spare-thinking-about-what-matters-ursula-k-le-guin%2Fd17745f38ed48292%3Fean%3D9781328507976%26next%3Dt%26\" data-i13n=\"elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Bookshop;elmt:;cpos:3;pos:1\" data-original-link=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/no-time-to-spare-thinking-about-what-matters-ursula-k-le-guin\/d17745f38ed48292?ean=9781328507976&amp;next=t&amp;\">book<\/a> collecting a selection of those posts was published that year. But, the podcast will include everything: essays, poems and &#8220;even the ones that are mostly cat pictures,&#8221; according to the announcement. The first episode will be released April 8 on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and other platforms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> From Le Guin&#8217;s official <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DWo9ASbGZTJ\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" data-i13n=\"cpos:4;pos:1\">Instagram<\/a> account, which is managed by her estate:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We always wanted to hear a version of the blog that includes every single post, even the ones that are mostly cat pictures. So for the next two years and change, we&#8217;ll release an episode every Wednesday. Each episode features a different reader of Ursula&#8217;s text, and each reader adds their own thoughts\u2014about their relationship with Ursula and her work, or about the specific topic of the post, or whatever catches their fancy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You can listen to a <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DWo9ASbGZTJ\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" data-i13n=\"cpos:5;pos:1\">trailer here<\/a> ahead of the first episode&#8217;s release this week.\u00a0Post zero, &#8220;A Note at the Beginning,&#8221; will be read by David Mitchell.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/entertainment\/ursula-k-le-guins-blog-has-been-turned-into-a-podcast-193257106.html?src=rss<\/p><p>Please credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\">OBA Blog<\/a> &raquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/ursula-k-le-guins-blog-has-been-turned-into-a-podcast\/\">Ursula K. Le Guin&#8217;s blog has been turned into a podcast<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who will never tire of the words of Ursula K. Le Guin, a special treat is on the way. The esteemed late author&#8217;s blog, which she started in 2010 at the age of 81, is being rereleased as a podcast, In Your Spare Time. Le Guin&#8217;s blog ran until 2017, and a book collecting a selection of those posts was published that year. But, the podcast will include everything: essays, poems and &#8220;even the ones that are mostly cat pictures,&#8221; according to the announcement. The first episode will be released April 8 on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and other platforms.\u00a0 From Le Guin&#8217;s official Instagram account, which is managed by her estate: We always wanted to hear a version of the blog that includes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}