Rebecca Solnit: The self as story  Jim Herrington Rebecca Solnit
will appear next Sunday, June 30 at Commonweal for a
conversation with Michael Lerner.  Rebecca Solnit, an award-
winning writer and “anti-memoirist,” grew up in Novato in the
1960s and 70s. She received a graduate degree in journalism from
the University of California, Berkeley, and has traveled around
the country and the world, from New Orleans to Iceland. She has
written over a dozen books and numerous articles and essays on
the American West, gender, urbanism, disasters, politics and
more. She will appear next Sunday, June 30 at Commonweal for a
conversation with Michael Lerner.   On Sunday she sat down with
the Point Reyes Light’s Samantha Kimmey to discuss her new book,
The Faraway Nearby, which touches on her difficult relationship
with her mother and a bout with disease, while weaving together
stories, characters and ideas as diverse as Mary Shelley’s
Frankenstein, Ché Guevara, leprosy, fairytales and apricots in a
work that serves as a m