Reads tagged with “Joan Didion”
The Continuous Creative Act of Holding on and Letting Go: 10 Beautiful Minds on the Art of Growing Older
The Outsider with the Public Voice: How Joan Didion Mirrored Us Back to Ourselves
“From the first, her work insisted that a single life contained the life of our times.”
Joan Didion’s Favorite Recipes
Chicken hash for Patti Smith, parsley salad for forty guests, and other edible fragments of a life that feminized the literary myth.
Joan Didion’s Favorite Books of All Time, in a Handwritten Reading List
A living anatomy of influences, from Brontë to Baldwin.
Joan Didion Answers the Proust Questionnaire
“Misery is feeling estranged from people I love. Misery is also not working. The two seem to go together.”
Joan Didion on Learning Not to Mistake Self-Righteousness for Morality
“When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something … but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen.”
Joan Didion on Hollywood’s Diversity Problem: A Masterpiece from 1968 That Could Have Been Written Today
“The public life of liberal Hollywood comprises a kind of dictatorship of good intentions, a social contract in which actual and irreconcilable disagreement is as taboo as failure or bad teeth.”
Joan Didion on Driving as Secular Worship and Self-Transcendence
“Participation requires a total surrender, a concentration so intense as to seem a kind of narcosis, a rapture-of-the-freeway.”
Vanessa Redgrave Reads Joan Didion’s Harrowing ‘Blue Nights’
“Time passes. Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.”
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