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Thursday, July 28, 7 PM
Rebecca Solnit is an essayist, historian, and activist whose work focuses on issues of environment, landscape, and place. Her books include Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Landscape Wars of the American West, A Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Ireland, Wanderlust: A History of Walking, Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism, As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism and the Mark Lynton History Prize, and Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities. Viking will publish her new book, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, in July of 2005. Also forthcoming is a book that Solnit has co-authored with Mark Klett and Bryon Wolfe called Yosemite in Time: Ice Ages, Tree Clocks, and Ghost Rivers, which will be published by Trinity University Press this coming fall. She lives in San Francisco David L. Ulin (moderator) is the author of The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction, and the Fault Line Between Reason and Faith. He is the editor of Another City: Writing from Los Angeles and Writing Los Angeles: a Literary Anthology. He is a frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Times and L.A. Weekly; he has also written for The Nation, The New York Times Book Review, and The Atlantic Monthly. |
