Talks | Literary
Unbound: Rebecca Solnit with Teju Cole
- 6PM
Single Tickets
Co-presented by BAM and Greenlight Bookstore, and the Onassis Cultural Center New York
Launch of The Mother of All Questions
Part of Onassis Programs at BAM
Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit comes to BAM for the launch of her new book, The Mother of All Questions (Haymarket Books), a timely and incisive follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me. Joined by writer, art historian, and photographer Teju Cole, Solnit discusses the women who refuse to be silenced, misogynistic violence, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon, the gender binary, the recent history of rape jokes, and much more.
Solnit is the author of 20 books on such ranging topics as feminism, Western and indigenous history, social change and insurrection, and walking, including Hope in the Dark, The Faraway Nearby, A Paradise Built in Hell, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Wanderlust: A History of Walking, and River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West, for which she received a Guggenheim fellowship, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Lannan Literary Award. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, Solnit is a columnist at Harper’s and a regular contributor to The Guardian.
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition A World of Emotions: Ancient Greece, 700 BC—200 AD, on view at the Onassis Cultural Center New York from March 9 through June 24, 2017. Free Admission.
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Teju Cole is the author of the essay collection Known and Strange Things and two works of fiction, Every Day Is for the Thief and Open City. He is the recipient of the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Internationaler Literaturpreis, the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Fiction, and the New York City Book Award, among other honors. He is also a photographer and has exhibited his work in the US, India, Iceland, and Germany. He is the photography critic of The New York Times Magazine; his “On Photography” column was a finalist for the 2016 National Magazine Award. His forthcoming book is Blind Spot.