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4.12 AVERAGE
4.12 AVERAGE
Will come back to add a star review once I have read the entire book. Read a couple of stories for American Postmodernism.
informative
reflective
medium-paced
it was nice but wasn’t what i thought it’d be. can’t sit through the whole book i don’t think
reflective
medium-paced
Joan was the perfect companion for my road trip up the coast from LA to SF. i can only imagine what a blast it would’ve been to talk about cultural decay and the dark side of California mythos while ripping heaters together.
R.I.P. queen
R.I.P. queen
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
This book reads as snippets from the early life of a remarkable artist and contains several important documents of times long gone in places irrevocably changed. Slouching Towards Bethlehem (the article) is a fascinating centrepiece to this collection which captures an era in decay better than perhaps any other writing I have come across. Didion, however, was an artists who’s work spanned genres and topics a plenty and as a result not every article included in this book was of personal interest to me, the quality of the prose not considered. It is precisely the quality of this prose, though, which kept me reading and which will ultimately lead me back to Joan Didion again and again. An essential inclusion in the Western literary canon even if the author herself would surpass this work on several occasions.
adventurous
challenging
reflective
fast-paced
challenging
informative
reflective
fast-paced
This is my first time reading Didion, and I have to say, she is worth the hype! She is one of the New Journalism writers of the 50s and 60s, changing how journalistic stories are reported, writing with a strong literary and personal voice. I was intrigued by her writing and her subject matter, which is from a different perspective than anything I have read before.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Murder
Fantastic. An inspiring collection of essays. Didion is something new for me, and I can't wait to read more from her.
