Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas and the unveiling of the University of San Francisco map.
The University of San Francisco selected Rebecca Solnit’s Infinite City for the 2011 Summer Reading Project. Please join Rebecca Solnit and USF Professor Aaron Shurin for a discussion of Infinite City and the unveiling of a new map. The lecture, followed by a reception, will take place October 4 at 12:30 in McClaren 252 at the University of San Francisco.
Rebecca Solnit is the author of thirteen books about art, landscape, public and collective life, ecology, politics, hope, meandering, reverie, and memory. They include Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, a book of 22 maps and nearly 30 collaborators. She has been the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). She has worked with climate change, Native American land rights, antinuclear, human rights, antiwar and other issues as an activist and journalist.
Aaron Shurin is the author of eleven books of poetry and prose and a Professor in the MFA in Writing Program at USF. He is a recipient of California Arts Council Literary Fellowships in poetry, and fellowships from the NEA and San Francisco Arts Commission in creative nonfiction. He has taught extensively in the fields of American poetry and poetics, the personal essay, and LGBT studies.
