Rebecca Solnit’s writing delights and provokes, from the pages of NER to her most recent book, Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas. Her voice illuminates another layer of her hard-headed intellectualism and her appreciation of beauty, ugliness, and melancholy.

Rebecca Solnit Breadloaf 2011 (excerpt from Infinite City)

Click above to hear Solnit speak about the history and subjective experience of film in San Francisco in this excerpt from Atlas, which she read at last year’s Breadloaf Writer’s Conference.

You can hear more readings from the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference by downloading recordings here.