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Losing Yourself: Rebecca Solnit’s ‘A Field Guide to Getting Lost’

By Will Willingham 25 Comments

In ‘A Field Guide to Getting Lost’, Rebecca Solnit considers not only the virtue of losing oneself, but the necessity of it.

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The Faraway Nearby Book Club: Living Inside Your Breath

By Will Willingham 16 Comments

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What’s it like to live in a room created with one’s own breath? Join us for a look at how we make our lives in this week’s discussion of The Faraway Nearby.

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The Faraway Nearby Book Club: Tears and the Ice Queen

By Will Willingham 15 Comments

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Through Hans Christian Andersen’s tale of The Ice Queen, Rebecca Solnit shares the healing power and warmth of tears. Join us for this week’s discussion of The Faraway Nearby.

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The Faraway Nearby Book Club: Bodies, Betrayal and Love

By Will Willingham 24 Comments

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We’re discussing Rebecca Solnit’s The Faraway Nearby, this week considering how pain is a necessary means to retain a sense of one’s very self.

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The Faraway Nearby Book Club: We Tell Ourselves Stories

By Will Willingham 35 Comments

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In The Faraway Nearby, Rebecca Solnit writes that “we tell ourselves stories in order to live.” In this week’s book club, we discuss the power of story. Join us.

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Book Club Announcement: The Faraway Nearby (Rebecca Solnit)

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

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Join us for our next book club, discussing The Faraway Nearby. We’ll can apricots, wear shoes made of ice, follow Frankenstein’s journey, fly with the swan man, and wander the labyrinth only to reach our center and return to our beginnings.

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

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Street photography, Jane Austen summer camp, what poetry, science and Twinkies have in common. It’s this week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks: The Twinkie Edition.

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