Ursula K. LeGuin is one of my all time favourites. This collection gathers together essays, speeches, and excerpts spanning much of her career, from the mid-70s to 2018. All of these writings have been published elsewhere before, and I'd read many of them previously.

LeGuin is an excellent writer and her essays are very much worth reading. This said, I'd suggest someone interested in first starting to read LeGuin's nonfiction start with a book LeGuin herself compiled rather than this one, which was put together of course without her input. The arrangement of essays is a bit strange here, and some of them - particularly things like excerpts from Steering the Craft - make more sense in the contexts LeGuin herself published them than here.