S3 Ep. 12: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman: Rebecca Solnit on Her Memoir Recollections of My Nonexistence

In this episode, writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit reflects on her new memoir Recollections of My Nonexistence. Solnit talks to Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell about the deep impact of gendered violence on daily life and what it means to be treated as unreliable witnesses to our own individual and collective experiences, as well as how her activism arose out of a deep love and what she calls “a positive engagement with uncertainty.” She also reminisces about her earliest writing spaces and formative experiences in political and artistic communities. To hear the full episode, subscribe to the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Guests: Rebecca Solnit Selected readings for the episode: Rebecca Solnit Recollections of My Nonexistence Hope in the Dark Men Explain Things To Me Other books My dream candidate exists – and her name is Elizabeth Warren (The Guardian) Rebecca Solnit: When the Hero is the Problem (LitHub) Rebecca Solnit: The Loneliness of Donald Trump (LitHub) How Rebecca Solnit Became the Voice of the Resistance (New York Times) Others  The Walk by William deBuys Jia Tolentino and Claire Vaye Watkins Talk Abuse, Harassment, and Harvey Weinstein (Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast Season 1, Episode 2) Roxane Gay narrates an ad for Elizabeth Warren The Public Voice of Women by Mary Beard The Odyssey by Homer On the Road by Jack Kerouac Opinion | Elizabeth Warren Has a Poet on Her Team. Here’s Why That’s a Good Idea. (New York Times) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices