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Tag Archives: Joan Didion
The Books: The White Album, ‘The Women’s Movement’, by Joan Didion
Next book on the essays shelf is The White Album: Essays (FSG Classics), by Joan Didion. I read this biting analysis of the women’s movement and I think, “Way to make friends, Joan.” Ha. Written in 1972, it comes 20 … Continue reading
The Books: The White Album, ‘Bureaucrats’, by Joan Didion
Next book on the essays shelf is The White Album: Essays (FSG Classics), by Joan Didion. I lived in Los Angeles for four months when I was 23 years old. I stayed in the spare bedroom of a woman in … Continue reading
The Books: The White Album, ‘Holy Water’, by Joan Didion
Next book on the essays shelf is The White Album: Essays (FSG Classics), by Joan Didion. One of the best parts of Didion’s writing, which you might miss since her subject matter is so broad, is how obsessive she is. … Continue reading
The Books: The White Album: ‘The White Album’, by Joan Didion
Next book on the essays shelf is The White Album: Essays (FSG Classics), by Joan Didion. Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Didion’s first collection of essays, came out in 1969. The essays had been written in the mid to late 60s, and … Continue reading
The Books: Slouching Towards Bethlehem: ‘Notes From a Native Daughter’, by Joan Didion
A fourth excerpt from the essay collection: Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays (FSG Classics), by Joan Didion Joan Didion has many topics that obsess her. Crime, narrative, real estate, language, to name a few. One of her obsessions is her home … Continue reading
The Books: Slouching Towards Bethlehem: ‘Slouching Towards Bethlehem’, by Joan Didion
A third excerpt from the essay collection: Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays (FSG Classics), by Joan Didion One of Joan Didion’s masterpieces. It’s unlike a lot of her other writing, which can be quite openly analytical. In this, she only has … Continue reading
The Books: Slouching Towards Bethlehem: ‘Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream’, by Joan Didion
Moving on from the Hollywood shelf to what I call my Essay shelf. First up, is the Joan Didion section. She is one of my favorite writers of all time. Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays (FSG Classics), by Joan Didion Slouching … Continue reading
Happy Birthday, Joan Didion
From the essay “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” in the collection Slouching Towards Bethlehem: The center was not holding. It was a country of bankruptcy notices and public-auction announcements and commonplace reports of casual killings and misplaced children and abandoned homes and … Continue reading
Happy Birthday, Joan Didion
From the essay “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” in the collection Slouching Towards Bethlehem: The center was not holding. It was a country of bankruptcy notices and public-auction announcements and commonplace reports of casual killings and misplaced children and abandoned homes and … Continue reading
“We Don’t Know Anything About Other People. We Can Only Know Them From the Outside. This Is One Of the Great Joys Of Life.”
So says Irish writer John Banville in this awesome recent interview about his new book that has set my mind spinning. There’s so much in it. So much to think about. There are only a couple of writers today where … Continue reading
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