![]() ![]() But you write memoir, and this book is a memoir, but you manage to defy that reductive categorization. Women get boxed into being these personal writers and not treated as experts on subject matters. This interview has been edited for clarity and length.Ī couple of years ago I was asked to talk to some young writers, mostly women, about being a writer, and the advice I gave them was to not write about themselves. Salon spoke with Solnit about her book, punk rock, and what it means for women to write memoirs. Solnit's remarkable ability to tie her personal stories to the world around her is why she continues to be popular with book buyers, no matter what she writes. ![]() Her latest book, " Recollections of My Nonexistence," is billed as a memoir, but draws deeply on this broad range of interests to produce something more. But as that essay indicates, Solnit is not just a feminist writer, but a historian, and an environmentalist. ![]() Rebecca Solnit is one of those increasingly rare writers who manages to avoid the pigeonhole, even as many an article about her reduces her to being the inspiration for the coinage "mansplaining," which was based on an essay of hers where she describes a man trying to explain her own book to her, while not acknowledging that she wrote it. ![]()
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