Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author
of fifteen books about environment, landscape, community, art, politics, the
power of stories, and hope.He recent
books include Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas, and The Faraway
Nearby.A Paradise Built in Hell: The
Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster was the San Francisco Public
Library’s One City One Book for 2012.River of Shadows, Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West won
the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary
Award).
She works with the group 350.org on climate issues and against gentrification and displacement in San Francisco. She is a
contributing editor to Harper’s and regular contributor to the political site
Tomdispatch.com.
Her latest book is a collection of essays titled, provocatively, MEN EXPLAIN THINGS TO ME. You can still get this beautiful book as a thank you gift for your donation to KPFA of $85 or more - go to www.kpfa.org/support.
No comments:
Post a Comment