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I've been thinking a lot about the canon of great American writers and how being a good writer is predicated on being well-read. I really love Didion's writing style, even though many of the essays went over my head (they're such a snapshot of California in the 60s, which doesn't really have resonance for me). I especially loved the last essay about her time in New York.
P.S. I owe Didion a great debt for writing one of my personal seminal texts on understanding grief ("My Year of Magical Thinking"), just as I look to Sally Rooney to explain the neurotic, contradictory nature of young aspiring-intellectual women.
P.S. I owe Didion a great debt for writing one of my personal seminal texts on understanding grief ("My Year of Magical Thinking"), just as I look to Sally Rooney to explain the neurotic, contradictory nature of young aspiring-intellectual women.
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holy shit. searing. she can just see it all, you know
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Really liked some of the essays, others not so much. Throughtoiyt the book/essays, I always was drawn toward Dideon's descriptions of place and geographies.
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Beautiful prose, she made me long to live in Californian cities that I have never been to. I think that’s something special. I also couldn’t help but think of “California” by Joni Mitchell all throughout reading this.
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I love Didion's writing, it is very catching, very casual. I enjoyed most of these essays, more so the ones about her own life than about others.