From the New York Times, this is the interview.

I'm David Marquesi.

As the old saying goes, the only constant is change.

Lately though, the change can feel overwhelming.

We are, after all, living through an era of widespread democratic

backsliding, massive technological disruption, and the ongoing slow-motion disaster of the climate

crisis, to name just a few. But what if there was a different and more hopeful story to tell

about all that upheaval? That's the question at the heart of The Beginning Comes After the End,

the new book by the prolific and critically acclaimed writer Rebecca Solnit.

A thematic sequel to her earlier classic, Hope in the Dark,

the book takes a longer view on progress

and offers a more optimistic philosophy of change

based on ideas of interconnection, feminism, ecological care,

and political equality.

It's not a naive book.

Solnit is keenly aware of the massive challenges we're all facing.

But it provides a stabilizing counterweight to the feeling that the world has spun dangerously

off-kilter.

Here's my conversation with Rebecca Solman.

You know, Rebecca, it's a real pleasure for me to speak to you, in part because a field guide

to getting lost was a really big book for me, and I read it not long after I had moved

from my home in Toronto to New York City, and it felt like a real companion at the time.

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