Join us on Monday, March 2nd at 7pm as we host Rebecca Solnit at The Internet Archive for the release of The Beginning Comes After the End. More details to come, but please grab a ticket and save the date. You will not want to miss this!

Tickets for this event are required and must be purchased via this page.

About the book

Rebecca Solnit offers a thrilling account of the sheer breadth and scale of social, political, scientific, and cultural change over the past three quarters of a century.

In this sequel to her enduring bestseller Hope in the Dark, Solnit surveys a world that has changed dramatically since the year 1960. Despite the forces seeking to turn back the clock on history, change is not a possibility; it is an inevitability.

The changes amount to nothing less than dismantling an old civilization and building a new one, whose newness is often the return of the old ways and wisdoms. In this rising worldview, interconnection is a core idea and value. But because the transformation is obscured within a longer arc of history, its scale is seldom recognized.

While the white nationalist and authoritarian backlash drives individualism and isolation, this new world embraces antiracism, feminism, a more expansive understanding of gender, environmental thinking, scientific breakthroughs, and Indigenous and non-Western ideas, pointing toward a more interconnected, relational world.

About the author

Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than 25 books, including Orwell’s Roses, Hope in the Dark, Men Explain Things to Me, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster, and A Field Guide to Getting Lost. A longtime climate and human rights activist, she serves on the boards of Oil Change International and Third Act. Her newsletter of essays and analyses can be found at meditationsinanemergency.com.

About the bookstore

The Booksmith is an independent bookstore located in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco since 1976.

Please note:

• This event will be taking place at The Internet Archive @ 300 Funston, San Francisco, CA
• Check-in begins at 6:20. Unclaimed seats are given up beginning at 7:05. This venue has pew-style seating.
• Books will be for sale on the night of the event in limited quantities.
• A limited number of books will be presigned and there will be a brief post-show signing as time allows.
• Questions? Accessibility requests? Write to us at [email protected].