{"title":"Literary Essays","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781911710370","title":"Hotel Casanova : And Other Brief Texts","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Ernaux, Annie\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eLiterary essays\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 29 October 2026 by Seven Stories Press Ltd (Seven Stories Press UK) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 96 pages\u003cbr\u003e209 x 148 x 10 | 118g\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ernaux, Annie","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54712951439544,"sku":"9781911710370","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9781911710370.jpg?v=1794323319"},{"product_id":"9781919318011","title":"A Non-Euclidean View of California as A Cold Place to Be","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Le Guin, Ursula K.\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eLiterary essays\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 21 October 2026 by Silver Press in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 48 pages\u003cbr\u003e158 x 116 x 11 | 66g\u003cp\u003eIn this refusal of futurity, Ursula K. Le Guin offers a counter-imaginary of place. She takes a non-linear journey through the stories we tell about progress and history, showing a way out of forward-oriented colonial modernity and its doctrine of technological utopias. Drawing upon Taoist philosophy and Indigenous storytelling, she advocates for anti-heroic alternatives to myths of endless growth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough Le Guin's characteristically playful prose, A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be shows that how we write is inseparable from how we imagine worlds, revealing the possibilities of living differently here and now\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Le Guin, Ursula K.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54712951472312,"sku":"9781919318011","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9781919318011.jpg?v=1794323320"}],"url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/collections\/literary-essays.oembed","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}