I’ve read a lot of Joan Didion in my life, but sometime in November after seeing her nephew’s documentary about her, “The Center Will Not Hold”, I decided to read her again from start to…
Posts tagged Joan Didion
Read, then moon
I could have sworn I had read Joan Didion’s novel Play it as it Lays, but a reference to it recently in pop culture went sailing and I felt like a fraud. Must actually read…
Blue Nights
When the people in Joan Didion’s life die, it’s the kind of thing that makes the news. Niece, before the release of the biggest movie she will live to make, “Poltergeist,” strangled by an ex-boyfriend….
The wonder years of Joan Didion
Dear Shevaun, You left a self-addressed envelope, the size of a note card, in the Duluth Public Library’s copy of The White Album, a collection of essays by Joan Didion. Your name as both the…
6 questions we always ask — Jessica Hopper, rocking author
Even though Jessica Hopper lives in Chicago, and thus far we’ve only asked Minnesotans the 6 questions, we made an exception because she went to high school here in the land of 10,000 lakes. Hopper…
Feeling a little guilty for picking on an old widow
I picked up The Year of Magical Thinking because in his answers to the 6 questions we always ask, Bill Tuomala said he would take Joan Didion out to Jax. Plus, I vaguely remembered hearing…
6 questions we always ask — Bill Tuomala, Exiled on Main Street
Bill Tuomala is the writer of the most-excellent zine “Exiled on Main Street” and the accompanying blog, Rocks Off. If there were any justice in the world he would be the most revered writer to…