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janeneal 's review for:
The Mother of All Questions
by Rebecca Solnit
Man, every one of these essays is so punchy and angry, I loved it! I wanted this purely for the shade Solnit throws at Hemingway and Franzen, but I underlined damn near every page of this book.
Unfortunately, it's already somewhat dated as I believe it came out before the huge #MeToo Hollywood reckoning. There are moments in essays when Solnit praises both Louis C.K. and Aziz Ansari (I take much more issue with C.K. than Ansari personally). I'm sort of surprised there wasn't a postscript in those essays as there is in an essay about Amy Schumer and her brand of white-feminism. Maybe there will be in later printings but FYI for any who wouldn't be expecting it.
Beyond that, this book is inclusive as fuck. It is written by a white cishet woman, so mileage may vary, but she did often take note that some folks don't operate in a binary or her own white privilege, etc.
Unfortunately, it's already somewhat dated as I believe it came out before the huge #MeToo Hollywood reckoning. There are moments in essays when Solnit praises both Louis C.K. and Aziz Ansari (I take much more issue with C.K. than Ansari personally). I'm sort of surprised there wasn't a postscript in those essays as there is in an essay about Amy Schumer and her brand of white-feminism. Maybe there will be in later printings but FYI for any who wouldn't be expecting it.
Beyond that, this book is inclusive as fuck. It is written by a white cishet woman, so mileage may vary, but she did often take note that some folks don't operate in a binary or her own white privilege, etc.