“I had started out in silence, written as quietly as I had read, and then eventually people read some of what I had written, and some of the readers entered my world or drew me into theirs.”
A selection from beloved Rebecca Solnit’s new book The Faraway Nearby has been reprinted on Guernica’s site. Chinese sages, Road Runner and Coyote, and magic doors in Narnia are all wound together and explored in her classic style of writing.
![National Poetry Month: “WHEN PRAYER DIDN’T AWAY THE GAY, MY DAD TAUGHT ME HOW TO PLAY DOOM ON THE FAMILY COMPUTER [Golden Shovel]”](https://therumpus.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/pic-Ty-Raso.jpeg)
