Joan Didion
Connections
Quotes
As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was resident in the rhythms of words and sentences and paragraphs, a technique for witholding whatever it was I thought or believed behind an increasingly impenetrable polish.
She drove it as a riverman runs a river, every day more attuned to its currents, its deceptions
out of the blue ... could not have been more exactly the baby I wanted.More quotes »
Around the web
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3 Must Reads
A few years after the grisly discovery of her toddler son’s maimed and mauled body, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, the wife of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh, wrote in her journal that “contrary to the general assumption, the first days of grief are not the wor from The Daily Beast Read more »
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Apparently Joan Didion Wanted to Be an Oceanographer
“I wanted to be an oceanographer, actually,” she reveals to Sheila Heti in in the February issue of The Believer. “And when I was out of school and living in New York and working for a magazine, I actually went out to the Scripps Institute, which is now from Flavorwire Read more »
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Everything Now The Same As It Ever Was But More So
The most interesting thing I’ve read today is a New York Review of Books critique of the mid-to-late-70s films of Woody Allen, written by Joan Didion and published in 1979. In summation: she was not a fan! (It’s worth pointing out that this was an essay from Videogum Read more »
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Shorties (Craig Finn, Gender Bias in NPR Book Coverage, and more)
"A lot of it was inspired by this book 'Democracy' by Joan Didion, which talks a lot about all the profiteering that took place out of Hawaii during the Vietnam War. It was sort of a jumping-off point for a lot of the bad stuff that we did. Not just the from largehearted boy Read more »
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Finn's 'Clear interpretations
"A lot of it was inspired by this book 'Democracy' by Joan Didion, which talks a lot about all the profiteering that took place out of Hawaii during the Vietnam War. It was sort of a jumping-off point for a lot of the bad stuff that we did. Not just the from Minneapolis Star Tribune Read more »
