Words are my matter : writings on life and books
(Book)

Machine generated contents note: Talks, Essays, And Occasional Pieces -- The Operating Instructions -- What It Was Like -- Genre: A Word Only a Frenchman Could Love -- "Things Not Actually Present" -- A Response, by Ansible, from Tau Ceti -- The Beast in the Book -- Inventing Languages -- How to Read a Poem: "Gray Goose and Gander" -- On David Hensel's Submission to the Royal Academy of Art -- On Serious Literature -- Teasing Myself Out of Thought -- Living in a Work of Art -- Staying Awake -- Great Nature's Second Course -- What Women Know -- Disappearing Grandmothers -- Learning to Write Science Fiction from Virginia Woolf -- The Death of the Book -- Le Guin's Hypothesis -- Making Up Stories -- Freedom -- Book Introductions And Notes On Writers -- A Very Good American Novel: H. L. Davis's Honey in the Horn -- Philip K. Dick: The Man in the High Castle -- Huxley's Bad Trip -- Stanislaw Lem: Solaris -- George MacDonald: The Princess and the Goblin --

Note continued: The Wild Winds of Possibility: Vonda Mclntyre's Dreamsnake -- Getting It Right: Charles L. McNichols's Crazy Weather -- On Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago -- Examples of Dignity: Thoughts on the Work of Jose Saramago -- Arkady and Boris Strugatsky: Roadside Picnic -- Jack Vance: The Languages of Pao -- H. G. Wells: The First Men in the Moon -- H. G. Wells: The Time Machine -- Wells's Worlds -- Book Reviews -- Margaret Atwood: Moral Disorder -- Margaret Atwood: The Year of the Flood -- Margaret Atwood: Stone Mattress -- J. G. Ballard: Kingdom Come -- Roberto Bolano: Monsieur Pain -- T. C. Boyle: When the Killing's Done -- Geraldine Brooks: People of the Book -- Italo Calvino: The Complete Cosmicomics -- Margaret Drabble: The Sea Lady -- Carol Emshwiller: Ledoyt -- Alan Garner: Boneland -- Kent Haruf: Benediction -- Kent Haruf: Our Souls at Night -- Tove Jansson: The True Deceiver -- Barbara Kingsolver: Flight Behavior -- Chang-Rae Lee: On Such a Full Sea --

Note continued: Doris Lessing: The Cleft

Donna Leon: Suffer the Little Children

Yann Martel: The High Mountains of Portugal

China Mieville: Emhassytown

China Mieville: Three Moments of an Explosion

David Mitchell: The Bone Clocks

Jan Morris: Hav

Julie Otsuka: The Buddha in the Attic

Salman Rushdie: The Enchantress of Florence

Salman Rushdie: Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights

Jose Saramago: Raised from the Ground

Jose Saramago: Skylight

Sylvia Townsend Warner: Dorset Stories

Jo Walton: Among Others

Jeanette Winterson: The Stone Gods

Stefan Zweig: The Post Office Girl.