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THE EXPERIENCE

As A Larger Reality: Ursula K. Le Guin comes to a close at Oregon Contemporary, join us for a film that honors the imagination, empathy, and wonder at the heart of Le Guin’s work.

We’ll journey into The Lathe of Heaven, a visionary adaptation of Le Guin’s novel where dreams reshape reality and every wish carries its shadow. This special screening invites audiences to reflect on the power of creation, and the delicate balance between dreaming and doing.

Following the screening, writer Leni Zumas will be in conversation with Theo Downes-Le Guin about the film and Ursula K. Le Guin’s work.

ON SCREEN: The Lathe of Heaven

1980. Directed by Fred Barzyk & David R. Loxton. Runtime: 1 hour 45 minutes. 

George Orr, a man whose dreams can change waking reality, tries to suppress this unpredictable gift with drugs. Dr. Haber, an assigned psychiatrist, discovers the gift to be real and hypnotically induces Mr. Orr to change reality for the benefit of mankind—with bizarre and frightening results.

ON STAGE: 

Leni Zumas

Leni Zumas is the author of four books of fiction, most recently WOLF BELLS (Algonquin/Little, Brown), which was named a Best Book of 2025 by the Washington Post and Portland Monthly. Her bestselling novel RED CLOCKS won the 2019 Oregon Book Award for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and the Neukom Award for Speculative Fiction. Red Clocks was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and was named a Best Book of 2018 by The Atlantic, the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, and the New York Public Library. Vulture called it one of the 100 Most Important Books of the 21st Century So Far.

Zumas is also the author of FAREWELL NAVIGATOR: STORIES (2008) and the novel THE LISTENERS (2012). Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Times Literary Supplement, Granta, Guernica, The Cut, Tin House, and elsewhere. She has received grants and fellowships from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the Regional Arts & Culture Council, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.

A finalist for the 2021 John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, Zumas lives in Portland, Oregon, where she is a professor in the creative writing program at Portland State University. Her first name rhymes with “rainy.”