Rebecca Solnit: ‘Fiction was always treated as the most important, literary, aspirational goal – f*** that’ ...United Arab Emirates

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Rebecca Solnit: ‘Fiction was always treated as the most important, literary, aspirational goal – f*** that’
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The prolific non-fiction writer returns to her favourite themes of hope and uncertainty in her cheerful new book, ‘No Straight Road Takes You There’. In a conversation with Hannah Ewens, she discusses why fiction is overrated, why new age spirituality is a hoax and how a functional social welfare state would encourage women to have children

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