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Powell’s Books Presents Rebecca Solnit in Conversation With Cheryl Strayed – SOLD OUT
March 18, 2020 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
$36This Event is All Ages and Reserved Seating.
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An Evening With the Author of Men Explain Things to Me
Renowned feminist writer Rebecca Solnit has been writing important, acclaimed, prize-winning books for years. Her 2014 essay collection, Men Explain Things to Me, won her an ardent readership among a new generation of young women readers who found a welcome touchstone in Solnit’s articulation of the female experience. Solnit’s new memoir, Recollections of My Nonexistence, offers an electric portrait of the artist as a young woman — and asks how a writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent.
In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and throughout society and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. She tells of being poor, hopeful, and adrift in the city that became her great teacher; of the small apartment that, when she was 19, became the home in which she transformed herself; of how punk rock gave form and voice to her own fury and explosive energy.
Solnit recounts how she came to recognize the epidemic of violence against women around her, the street harassment that unsettled her, the trauma that changed her, and the authority figures who routinely disdained and disbelieved girls and women, including her. Looking back, she sees all these as consequences of the voicelessness that was and still is the ordinary condition of women, and how she contended with that while becoming a writer and a public voice for women’s rights.
Solnit will be joined in a conversation about her life and new memoir by Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild, Tiny Beautiful Things, and Brave Enough.
Price includes a copy of Solnit’s Recollections of My Nonexistence. Books distributed at event.