Forum on the Humanities and the Public World

Rebecca Solnit, Writer, historian, activist

Wednesday, April 15, 2009
4:00 pm | Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

webcast of talk

Rebecca Solnit is the best-selling author of numerous books, including A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Wanderlust: A History of Walking, Hope in the Dark, and most recently, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics. A contributing editor to Harper's, columnist for Orion, and frequent contributor Tomdispatch.com, she often writes on topics of the environment, politics, place, and art. Labeled “indispensible” by the San Francisco Chronicle, Solnit’s work has frequently been compared to the writing of Joan Didion and Susan Sontag. She is a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award, the Wired Rave Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her next book, which is about the extraordinary communities that arise in disaster, will be available by the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

Links

Recent Articles:
“The Most Radical Thing You Can Do,” Orion, November/December 2008

“News from Nowhere: Iceland's Polite Dystopia,” Harper’s, October 2008

“Men Explain Things to Me: Facts Didn't Get in Their Way,” Tomdispatch.com

Interviews:
Profile in the San Francisco Chronicle

Interview with Salon.com

Interview with The Atlantic