This week on In Your Spare Time, Leah Schnelbach reads post 5, "Exorcists," from November 2010.
In 2010, there was a conference on exorcisms in Baltimore, held by Roman Catholic bishops from the United States. Ursula had thoughts—about exorcisms, holiness, and the makeup of the Supreme Court.
You can listen at the link in bio, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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A postcard for Ursula’s chapbook The Art of Bunditsu, which appears in the Book of Cats.
(We will be giving some of these little cards away via Bluesky in the not too distant future!)
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This week on In Your Spare Time, Omar El Akkad reads post 4, "Someone Named Delores," from October 2010.
This post begins with Ursula's response to a sentence in a Zadie Smith story, then delves into issues of class and language before transforming into a beautiful appreciation of a woman Ursula knew—a woman named Delores.
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Photo of Omar El Akkad by Kateshia Pendergrass
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Last year, Croatian publisher @artikularij released a gorgeous illustrated version of The Wind's Twelve Quarters. Now, they're back for The Compass Rose, which has artwork by six different illustrators. For the next few weeks, we'll spotlight those artists!
These three illustrations - for "The Author of the Acacia Seeds," "The New Atlantis," and "Schrödinger's Cat" - are by Agata Lučić, @lucic.agata
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This week on In Your Spare Time, @adriennemareebrown reads post 3, "The Absent Silence," from October 27, 2010.
Ursula went looking for a quote from José Saramago, and when she couldn't find it, began to entertain some "paranoid thoughts." It turned out she just hadn't searched the right phrase. But in the process, she wrote, "I began to consider something I’d only very vaguely known and hadn’t given much thought to: the fact that how Google gets and handles its information is an industrial secret."
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Photo of adrienne maree brown by Anajli Pinto
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🌟 GIVEAWAY! 🌟 We have nine Google Play codes to give away for the new audiobook of Five Ways to Forgiveness! This edition is read by Michael Crouch and Frankie Corzo.
Interested in giving it a listen? Leave a comment below and we will randomly select the winners on Monday. (This giveaway is limited to U.S. readers only, sorry!)
The giveaway will be open for entries until 5 pm (PST) on Sunday, May 3rd, 2026. If you are selected, we will DM you your individual code (so please check your message requests). This giveaway is not sponsored or endorsed by Instagram, Meta, or anyone else.
"I love it. But I don’t quite understand it and what Le Guin was doing with it and how it works. It’s full of very specific time and place that feels absolutely real, as if I read a book set in the 1820s and I could go there now and take a slightly run-down and overcrowded train to those locations. I don’t generally have any difficulty telling what’s set in the real world and what’s in a secondary world, because this is a thing that fiction does by register, and Malafrena is in the register of the real world, so surely that lake is there, those mountains, and the city of Krasnoy away over the plains."
—Jo Walton on Malafrena, "Jo Walton’s Reading List: March 2026," at Reactor
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On this episode of In Your Spare Time, Roger Cohen reads post 2, "Miners and I-Pods," from October of 2010.
Ursula wrote this post in response to Roger's New York Times column "The Return of 'Los 33'"—which he also reads in the episode! It's a two-for-one this week.
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We're thrilled that Fred Fordham's graphic novel adaptation of A Wizard of Earthsea is a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story or Comic!
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“The Dispossessed has matured my political views, reshaped my values, and changed my life. Reading it showed me how to confront a political landscape increasingly hostile to productive dialogue.”
—Alec del Pino Gil-Casares in The Harvard Political Review (link in bio)
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