No Straight Road Takes You There
The writer we at Leviathan Bookstore turn to more than any other when we’re concerned about the state of the world is Rebecca Solnit. She has a brilliant mind and expresses her thought exquisitely, whatever subject she’s discussing. Frankly, we wish she could spend all of her time writing about inconsequential matters, but she’s wise enough to realize that her best purpose in this perilous era is to map a way through it. She’s that all-too-rare thing, a hopeful pragmatist.
In her latest essay collection, the award-winning author explores climate change, feminism, democracy, hope, and power and its abuse. Throughout she asks us to heed the stories we tell or have been told, and the ways those stories can be, or should be changed. Solnit offers a reappraisal of the value of indirect consequences, an embrace of unpredictability, slowness, and imperfection in the politics of how to change the world. Beginning with an essay about a three-hundred-year-old violin and what it can tell us about forests, abundance, and climate, and ending with on about a prisoner dreaming of seeing the ocean, No Straight Road Takes You There deftly bridges the political and the literary, offering unique insights, nuanced understanding, and inspiration for the challenging work ahead.
The book comes out on May 13, and we’ll have a limited number of signed copies available. Pre-order now to claim one!
The writer we at Leviathan Bookstore turn to more than any other when we’re concerned about the state of the world is Rebecca Solnit. She has a brilliant mind and expresses her thought exquisitely, whatever subject she’s discussing. Frankly, we wish she could spend all of her time writing about inconsequential matters, but she’s wise enough to realize that her best purpose in this perilous era is to map a way through it. She’s that all-too-rare thing, a hopeful pragmatist.
In her latest essay collection, the award-winning author explores climate change, feminism, democracy, hope, and power and its abuse. Throughout she asks us to heed the stories we tell or have been told, and the ways those stories can be, or should be changed. Solnit offers a reappraisal of the value of indirect consequences, an embrace of unpredictability, slowness, and imperfection in the politics of how to change the world. Beginning with an essay about a three-hundred-year-old violin and what it can tell us about forests, abundance, and climate, and ending with on about a prisoner dreaming of seeing the ocean, No Straight Road Takes You There deftly bridges the political and the literary, offering unique insights, nuanced understanding, and inspiration for the challenging work ahead.
The book comes out on May 13, and we’ll have a limited number of signed copies available. Pre-order now to claim one!
The writer we at Leviathan Bookstore turn to more than any other when we’re concerned about the state of the world is Rebecca Solnit. She has a brilliant mind and expresses her thought exquisitely, whatever subject she’s discussing. Frankly, we wish she could spend all of her time writing about inconsequential matters, but she’s wise enough to realize that her best purpose in this perilous era is to map a way through it. She’s that all-too-rare thing, a hopeful pragmatist.
In her latest essay collection, the award-winning author explores climate change, feminism, democracy, hope, and power and its abuse. Throughout she asks us to heed the stories we tell or have been told, and the ways those stories can be, or should be changed. Solnit offers a reappraisal of the value of indirect consequences, an embrace of unpredictability, slowness, and imperfection in the politics of how to change the world. Beginning with an essay about a three-hundred-year-old violin and what it can tell us about forests, abundance, and climate, and ending with on about a prisoner dreaming of seeing the ocean, No Straight Road Takes You There deftly bridges the political and the literary, offering unique insights, nuanced understanding, and inspiration for the challenging work ahead.
The book comes out on May 13, and we’ll have a limited number of signed copies available. Pre-order now to claim one!