Rebecca solnit8/11/2023 ![]() It still seems to get reposted more than just about anything I’ve written at, and prompted some very funny letters to this site. That was April 2008 and it struck a chord. It wanted to be written it was restless for the racetrack it galloped along once I sat down at the computer and since Marina slept in later than me in those days, I served it for breakfast and sent it to Tom later that day. So lovely, immeasurably valuable Sam, this one always was for you in particular. Young women needed to know that being belittled wasn’t the result of their own secret failings it was the boring old gender wars. My houseguest, the brilliant theorist and activist Marina Sitrin, insisted that I had to write it down because people like her younger sister Sam needed to read it. One evening over dinner, I began to joke, as I often had before, about writing an essay called “Men Explain Things to Me.” Every writer has a stable of ideas that never make it to the racetrack, and I’d been trotting this pony out recreationally every once in a while. Have a good Labor Day! We’ll be back on Tuesday. In other words, books live!” To honor this breakthrough moment for our little DIY publishing dream, I’m bringing back that book’s now-classic 2008 title piece for its second bow as a “best of TomDispatch” selection, including Solnit’s 2012 (re)introduction to it. To me the success of this book is, among other things, a testament to the respect and focus that books still have in many readers’s lives. Rebecca adds that, amid all the discussion of the death of the book, “ People are responding to content in print with a quality of attention that’s different than even the strong responses some of these pieces got on the Internet. We here at TomDispatch have been rocked, that’s for sure, and this particular Mr. Okay, in case any of you need that name again (and if so, you can’t be a TomDispatch reader), it’s Rebecca Solnit and the book will rock your world, too. It’s going to make you very angry and very happy. It’s really short, you could get through it on a plane ride. It’s an awesome book about gender politics. ![]() I’m trying to figure out the author’s name. ![]() Comedian Cameron Esposito chose to discuss the book in response to this question from the Advocate : “ What is the single most important must-read book of the last decade?” Her response: “ The most important book of the decade? Good gravy! I’m reading something awesome right now. The book was tweeted by science fiction writer Neil Gaiman (2.02 million followers) and his wife, musician Amanda Palmer (1.04 million). Three months later, we’re already in our third printing and producing a hardcover version of the book for November that will include two more of her remarkable essays! We have photographic evidence that the book has made it to Kathmandu, Nepal, as well as onto indie bestseller lists here in the United States. In late May, we published our third Dispatch book (with Haymarket Books), Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me. ![]() [ Note for TomDispatch Readers: This has been a little crazy.
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