Rebecca Solnit is a contributing editor at Harper’s Magazine and a regular writer for publications including The Guardian and The London Review of Books. Her books include “A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster” and “Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities.” This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “Rebecca Solnit — Falling Together.” Find more at onbeing.org.