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Victoria: Based on Joan Didion's best-selling memoir, The Year Of Magical Thinking captures the compassion, humour and bewilderment of a fiercely intelligent woman whose world lurches suddenly from the ordinary to the unimaginable.
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Zadie Smith wonders what essays offer to a novelist : Within the confines of an essay or – even better! – an aphorism, you can be the writer you dream of being. No word out of place, no tell-tale weak spots (dialogue, the convincing representation of other people, plot), no absences, no lack. I think it's the limits of the essay, and of the real, that truly attract fiction writers. In the...
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Bob Thompson in The American Scholar: When I first encountered Joan Didion, I was on a bus heading back to my apartment in the middle of the night. This was in Cambridge, Mass., in 1975, and I had picked up...
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Lou Barlow visits The Current studio for an interview and live performance. In the Guardian, Zadie Smith examines the appeal of essay writing to novelists. Perfect essays abound in this world – almost every one of Joan Didion's fits the...
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Victoria: Based on Joan Didion's best-selling memoir, The Year Of Magical Thinking captures the compassion, humour and bewilderment of a fiercely intelligent woman whose world lurches suddenly from the ordinary to the unimaginable.
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Victoria: Based on Joan Didion's best-selling memoir, The Year Of Magical Thinking captures the compassion, humour and bewilderment of a fiercely intelligent woman whose world lurches suddenly from the ordinary to the unimaginable.
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"I did not see Didion’s style as belonging to Didion; I saw it simply as the way sentences were written before I was born." Image Credit: The Morning News
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Victoria: Based on Joan Didion's best-selling memoir, The Year Of Magical Thinking captures the compassion, humour and bewilderment of a fiercely intelligent woman whose world lurches suddenly from the ordinary to the unimaginable.
Jezebel (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
A couple of years ago, my then-boyfriend wrote a piece of erotica about Joan Didion, which fact should go some ways towards explaining both why the relationship lasted as long as it did, and why we... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Victoria: Based on Joan Didion's best-selling memoir, The Year Of Magical Thinking captures the compassion, humour and bewilderment of a fiercely intelligent woman whose world lurches suddenly from the ordinary to the unimaginable.
Mythology and Milk (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Is there anyone who *isn't* overwhelmed this time of year? I've never felt more completely buried in mundane tasks. I've always been so sure of my organizational skills--I make lists, keep an accurate calendar, and maintain a running dialogue with myself about what I need to do. I'm beginning to forget things. I've missed out on a few things I meant to do last week, which has me feeling horrible. I...
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Victoria: Based on Joan Didion's best-selling memoir, The Year Of Magical Thinking captures the compassion, humour and bewilderment of a fiercely intelligent woman whose world lurches suddenly from the ordinary to the unimaginable.
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Victoria: Based on Joan Didion's best-selling memoir, The Year Of Magical Thinking captures the compassion, humour and bewilderment of a fiercely intelligent woman whose world lurches suddenly from the ordinary to the unimaginable.
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Victoria: Based on Joan Didion's best-selling memoir, The Year Of Magical Thinking captures the compassion, humour and bewilderment of a fiercely intelligent woman whose world lurches suddenly from the ordinary to the unimaginable.
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