Listener Extra: More From Amy’s Conversation With Rebecca Solnit
Amy covered so much ground in her recent conversation with Rebecca Solnit that she barely scratched the surface of Solnit’s more than twenty books. One in particular, Orwell’s Roses, is a favorite of Amy’s and a useful guide in tumultuous times.
Today, we’re sharing more from their conversation—an exchange about George Orwell’s relationship with nature and the indispensable role it played in his life’s work.
“If you dig into Orwell’s work, you find a lot of sentences about flowers and pleasures and the natural world. If you read enough of those sentences the gray portrait turns to color, and if you look for these passages, even his last masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four, changes complexion.”
Rebecca Solnit, from Orwell’s Roses (2021)