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Beginning in San Francisco in 1981, the era of punk and nascent gay pride, Rebecca Solnit’s latest book Recollections of My Non-Existence (Granta) is a powerful memoir of growing both as a woman and an artist, drawing on the powers of literature, activism and solidarity in the face of an apparently unbreachable patriarchy. The struggle to find a voice and to find a way to make that voice heard are brilliantly captured and dissected by one of feminism’s, and indeed the world’s, foremost thinkers. Rebecca Solnit was in conversation about her life and work with historian Mary Beard, whose most recent book is Women & Power: A Manifesto. Both of our speakers are regular contributors to the pages of the LRB.
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Holly Pester & Nathalie Olah: The Lodgers
Rachael Allen & Lucy Mercer: God Complex
Lara Pawson & Jennifer Hodgson: Spent Light
Paul Muldoon: Howdie-Skelp
Adam Phillips & Hermione Lee: On Giving Up
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Ed Atkins & Steven Zultanski: Sorcerer
Lynne Segal & Amelia Horgan: Lean on Me
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Mathias Enard & Chris Power: The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild
McKenzie Wark & Lauren John Joseph: Love and Money, Sex and Death
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Amy Acre & Joelle Taylor: Mothersong
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