Odell’s book depends literally on access to Bay Area parks

Evidence

In collecting my thoughts for this book, I spent countless hours in Bay Area parks—not only in the Rose Garden, but Purisima Creek Redwoods Preserve, Joaquin Miller Park, Sam McDonald County Park, the Pearson-Arastradero Preserve, Henry W. Coe State Park, Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, Jackson Demonstration State Forest, and the Forest of Nisene Marks State Park. I am speaking literally when I say that without those places, this book would not exist. I went to them not just to escape the landscape of productivity, but to collect different ideas and observations that could never have been mine otherwise. If you have enjoyed reading this, then in some senses you have enjoyed those places, too. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 608

Categorization

• QUESTION: This is the crux evidence for the reader’s privilege critique — Odell herself concedes she needed free time and accessible parks.
• XREF: Direct material for the privilege question: her method of place-attention presupposes protected public land and leisure.