Rebecca Solnit

Biography

Rebecca Solnit is the author of numerous books, including a trilogy of atlases and the books Men Explain Things to Me (Granta, 2014); The Faraway Nearby (Viking, 2013); A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster (Viking, 2009); A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Viking 2005); Wanderlust: A History of Walking; and River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (Viking, 2003), for which she received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist at Harper’s.

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NOTES TO SELF / Winter 2017

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro & Rebecca Solnit’s Notes to Self

By Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, Rebecca Solnit ,  Photography by Alex Welsh

Of all American cities, New York is perhaps the most visually iconic. Even its public transportation is embedded in the national imagination, with arguably more people having seen the map of its subway system than maps of their own...

Photograph by Alex Welsh