![]() ![]() She has published several books on the American West, a handful of city guides-most notably about her longtime hometown of San Francisco-and a few other books that more generally theorize walking or wandering across different spaces. Too many people have quit noticing Solnit’s work, primarily because vast swaths of her literary career have been given over to ideas about landscape. ![]() To state it maximally in the manner of the anonymously hateful message boards that still wish her dead, Solnit’s powerful threat to the patriarchy continues to exponentially expand. ![]() To state it minimally, Solnit is a widely respected feminist. ![]() Most people know her best as author of the 2008 viral Granta essay and subsequent 2014 book of same title, Men Explain Things to Me ( Granta, 2014). For a long time now, readers have counted Solnit as one of those very same forces that save. The acknowledgements page of Rebecca Solnit‘s new memoir, Recollections of My Nonexistence, opens with this reflection: “I’m here because of the forces that protect the vulnerable, encourage the eccentric, and educate the ignorant” (241). ![]()
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