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Rebecca Solnit. © Sallie Dean Shatz Head over to Harper’s Magazine to read a six-question interview with Rebecca Solnit, in which she talks about her two new books, Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas (UC Press) and The Faraway Nearby (Viking), and her continuing project to define the self in terms of physical, natural, political, [more...]  UC Press congratulates Rebecca Solnit on winning two major awards for Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas: the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association (NCIBA) Award for Regional Title of the Year, and the Northern California Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. The NCIBA Awards are decided by local booksellers who choose their favorite books in seven different [more...] Over the past month, UC Press authors and publications have been honored with a series of outstanding awards and nominations. Read more about the honors they’ve received: Daniel Callahan, Matteo Ricci, S.J. Award In the latest UC Press podcast, host Chris Gondek talks to author Rebecca Solnit and UC Press Art Director Lia Tjandra about the creation of Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas and UC Press’s act of faith in taking on the project. In working on the book, Solnit says, she was alarmed to learn that she [more...] Contributors, friends, and fans gathered to celebrate the release of Rebecca Solnit’s Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas at the McCroskey Mattress Co. earlier this month. Not even a World Series game could keep them away, although the San Francisco Chronicle’s Leah Garchik did show up with with an earpiece in tuned to the game. Over [more...] Utne Reader has named Rebecca Solnit one of its 25 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World, praising Solnit for telling a different story than the one told by mainstream media in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina—”a story of strength and resilience” that revealed “the courage and humanity displayed by the millions of volunteers who helped [more...] To celebrate the publication of Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-2000, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive present an evening of light shows, multiple projection pieces, and film loops by Craig Baldwin, Gibbs Chapman, Scott Stark and the Overdub Club (Thad Povey, Lucio Menegon, [more...] |
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