![]() ![]() In the forward she writes for the book she discusses how she manages to pull that off. I’d start with “Slouching,” essays mostly centered on California but with a grace, precision and generosity that speaks to all of us, reflects all of us. She has a long list of work, both nonfiction and fiction. Didion speaks to us all, reflects us allĭidion died this week at the age of 87. She came running through the door waving Didion’s book in her hand and shouting, “How did I not know about this?!” ![]() Yeats’ poem “The Second Coming.”Ī week or so later I was in a coffee shop waiting to meet the young woman to whom I’d gifted the book. “Slouching Toward Bethlehem” had been out for several years already, but the essays hadn’t lost a bit of their shine. She was an English Literature major, like me, but in those days the underground rage were nonfiction writers like Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. When I was a freshman in college I gave a young woman I was – to be honest – hoping to impress, a copy of Joan Didion’s collection of essays called “Slouching Toward Bethlehem.” Acclaimed memoirist and novelist Joan Didion has died at age 87 of Parkinson's disease. ![]()
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