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If Anne Rice can have a GBS thread, Joan Didion can too. Joan Didion, famed American essayist and novelist, has died quote:Acclaimed American writer Joan Didion, an essayist and novelist who rose to prominence in the 1960s, has died at age 87, her publisher confirmed to CNN on Thursday. Her ancestors traveled with the infamous Donner Party but they took a different route. She had a long and fascinating career. I read "Play it as it Lays" and "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" last year. I own a copy of "The Year of Magical Thinking" but haven't cracked it as I've had enough grief the last couple years. I've never been to California or the 1960s but I still enjoyed her works. There's a documentary on Netflix about her life, made by her nephew, titled "The Center Will Not Hold". It's a fine feature in its own right. quote:"I think we are well-advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.”
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 05:31 |
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# ? Apr 29, 2024 15:33 |
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Year of Magical Thinking is pretty good. I suggest cracking it over the holidays. Especially good if you've lost a family member recently. RIP Joan DIdion.
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 05:42 |
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who
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 05:43 |
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maybe she should have wrote an essay about how to not die and then read her own essay and followed the instructions
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 05:46 |
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 06:12 |
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Call Your Grandma posted:maybe she should have wrote an essay about how to not die
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 06:17 |
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I wish I'd read any of her stuff before she passed away, but them's the breaks.
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 06:23 |
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I love Didion's writing because she is an rear end in a top hat
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 07:32 |
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