Margaret Withers laid the foundation for her art during a largely unsupervised childhood in which she distanced herself from actuality by envisioning her own small world as a theater and casting herself as both playwright and lead actor in countless fictions. I
Rebecca Solnit is one of the most capaciously curious and insightful living writers, having explored subjects across a tremendous variety of fields. What is perhaps most refreshing about her approach to her material is precisely the fearlessness with which she circumvents traditional methods