The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness
by Rebecca Solnit
Buy on AmazonIn The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness ( public library | IndieBound ), she explores place as “the intersection of many changing forces passing through, whirling around, mixing, dissolving, and exploding in a fixed location,” forces like culture, justice, ecology, democracy, art, and storytelling, which reveal things like “what environmentalists got wrong about country music and nearly everyone got wrong about Henry David Thoreau’s laundry.”
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"In The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness ( public library | IndieBound ), she explores place as “the intersection of many changing forces passing through, whirling around, mixing, dissolving, and exploding in a fixed location,” forces like culture, justice, ecology, democracy, art, and storytelling, which reveal things like “what environmentalists got wrong about country music and nearly everyone got wrong about Henry David Thoreau’s laundry.”"
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