Writers & Books
34.5K views | +0 today
Follow
Writers & Books
Reviews, essays, interviews, poems, awards, author profiles, podcasts, and more
Curated by bobbygw
Your new post is loading...
Your new post is loading...
Scooped by bobbygw
Scoop.it!

Joan Didion’s Best Books: A Guide

Joan Didion’s Best Books: A Guide | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Her distinctive prose and sharp eye were tuned to an outsider’s frequency, telling us about ourselves in essays are almost reflexively skeptical. Here’s where to start.
No comment yet.
Rescooped by bobbygw from Fabulous Feminism
Scoop.it!

Women Writers & Documentary: On the long-awaited documentary on Joan Didion 

Women Writers & Documentary: On the long-awaited documentary on Joan Didion  | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Empty description
No comment yet.
Scooped by bobbygw
Scoop.it!

Classic Appreciation: On Joan Didion’s superb novel 'Play It As It Lays,' her surgical prose and crushing fatalism - by John Leonard

Classic Appreciation: On Joan Didion’s superb novel 'Play It As It Lays,' her surgical prose and crushing fatalism - by John Leonard | Writers & Books | Scoop.it

I am what I am. To look for 'reasons' is beside the point" * "There hasn't been another American writer of Joan Didion's quality since Nathanael West.

No comment yet.
Scooped by bobbygw
Scoop.it!

Essay-Appreciation: on Joan Didion's Non-Fiction by Hilton Als

Essay-Appreciation: on Joan Didion's Non-Fiction by Hilton Als | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
A peculiar aspect of Joan Didion’s nonfiction is that a significant portion of it reads like fiction.Or, more specifically, it has the metaphorical power...
No comment yet.
Scooped by bobbygw
Scoop.it!

On six women intellectuals: Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Diane Arbus and Joan Didion

On six women intellectuals: Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Diane Arbus and Joan Didion | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Sontag advocated “feeling management” and emotional regulation, insisting on the responsibility of the intellectual to keep personal feeling out.
No comment yet.