Solnit

Critics of the new Crystal Bridges Museum, such as author Rebecca Solnit and Ned Cramer, editor of Architecture magazine, argue that Walton — the third-richest woman in the world with an estimated worth of $21.2 billion, according to Forbes.com — has used her wealth to poach paintings that should remain in their home cities.

Walton-backed museum sends ripples across USA 2011

Make a call, dance around… In her book Wanderlust, Rebecca Solnit describes how a walk can generate a rhythm of thinking in which a "new thought often seems like a feature of the landscape that was there all along."

Time management | Putting it into practice 2012

As Solnit puts it: "If you imagine that the public is a danger, you endanger the public."

Johann Hari: The Myth of the Panicking Disaster Victim -- and Why We Should Be Inspired This Week Johann Hari 2011

Critics of the new Crystal Bridges Museum, such as author Rebecca Solnit and Ned Cramer, editor of Architecture magazine, argue that Walton — the third-richest woman in the world with an estimated worth of $21.2 billion, according to Forbes.com — has used her wealth to poach paintings that should remain in their home cities.

Walton-backed museum sends ripples across USA 2011

In her gorgeous book A Paradise Built In Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise In Disaster, Rebecca Solnit shows how this is how almost everybody responds to disaster, across continents and across contexts.

Johann Hari: The Myth of the Panicking Disaster Victim -- and Why We Should Be Inspired This Week Johann Hari 2011

To catch Solnit discussing “mixed-up California” in a Timothy MacBain TomCast audio interview, click here or, to download it to your iPod, here.

Rebecca Solnit: Jurassic Ballot: When Corporations Ruled the Earthrop 23 Rebecca Solnit 2010

To catch Solnit discussing “mixed-up California” in a Timothy MacBain TomCast audio interview, click here or, to download it to your iPod, here.

Rebecca Solnit: Jurassic Ballot: When Corporations Ruled the Earthrop 23 Rebecca Solnit 2010

It also has world literature, representing writers who are less well known in the UK, and a section for books that explore the meaning of place and space, featuring names such as Rebecca Solnit, Iain Sinclair and Olivia Lang.

Independent bookshops in London 2011

To catch Solnit discussing “mixed-up California” in a Timothy MacBain TomCast audio interview, click here or, to download it to your iPod, here.

Rebecca Solnit: Jurassic Ballot: When Corporations Ruled the Earthrop 23 Rebecca Solnit 2010

I am reminded of a line by historian Rebecca Solnit from A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster: "Disaster shocks us out of slumber, but only skillful effort keeps us awake."

Beverly Bell: In Haiti, "We Will Never Fall Asleep Forgetting" Beverly Bell 2011