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Joan Didion

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Name: Joan Didion

First reported 3 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 1 reports

Writer's choice 382: Isabelle Grey

Isabelle Grey had a teenage crush on F. Scott Fitzgerald, followed by a deep attraction to the thrill of Watergate and the chutzpah of gonzo journalism. She became, first, a freelance journalist and non-fiction author, then a television screenwriter ... [Published normblog - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Joan Didion, Hilton Als, W. G. Sebald, Tom Wolfe

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Sign off from the editor-in-chief

“It all comes back.” This is what Joan Didion writes in her canonical post-modern long-form article, “On Keeping a Notebook.” Didion reflects on the spirit of her journal of private musings, not the public kind one reads in a newspaper. But my life, too, ... [Published Denver University Clarion - May 15 2013]

Entities: Joan Didion, Crucible, Crested

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

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WTF? With Matthew Lewis

Matthew Lewis, who writes for The Daily Caller and The Week, wasn?t invited to deliver the commencement address at any ceremonies this year. But what?s that to stop him from writing 1,200 words of ?advice? to new graduates anyway?In a Monday column for ... [Published Media Bistro - May 14 2013]

Entities: Matthew Lewis, Lewis's, Angela Duckworth, George Santayana, Joan Didion

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Bloggingheads.tv

My advice for the class of 2013

A conservative defense of government Congratulations, graduates. At commencements like this one all across the nation this spring, former students just like you can expect to hear dignitaries of all stripes offer some quixotic advice. For example: Every ... [Published The Week Magazine - May 13 2013]

Entities: distraction, Angela Duckworth, Bloggingheads.tv, George Santayana, Jonah Lehrer

First reported May 11 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

If You and Joan Didion Were Onstage Together in Front of 2,000 People, What Would You Ask Her?

Joan Didion will be making a Seattle Arts & Lectures appearance at Benaroya Hall on Wednesday, June 5, and if you don't already have tickets, you need to get on it. I will be there, in a tuxedo, introducing her and asking the questions, which is ... [Published The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper - May 11 2013]

Entities: Joan Didion, Seattle, Anxiety

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

Michelle Obama

Betty Draper or Jackie O? What a mom’s clothes say about her

For most women, the earliest exposure to fashion comes via Mom, the alpha and omega of feminine behaviour. We remember watching her dress, coveting her Pucci handbag. We recall shadowing her in the bathroom mirror, transfixed as she “put on her mouth.” ... [Published Globe and Mail - May 09 2013]

Entities: Joan Crawford, Joan Didion, Michelle Obama, Donald Winnicott, Rebecca Walker

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

Etsy Inc

Why Are Women DIY Entrepreneurs Called 'Hobbyists'?

Much has been written about the so-called "new domesticity," the surge in interest in things like canning, pickling, cooking, bread-baking, sewing, knitting, and gardening, which — at least if one were to judge by the pages of Etsy.com, the "crafts" category ... [Published Jezebel - May 08 2013]

Entities: Joan Didion, Etsy Inc, Entrepreneur

First reported May 04 2013 - Updated May 04 2013 - 1 reports

Lost in the Geometry of California’s Farms

I drove down the San Joaquin Valley along Interstate 5 the other day. It was a tour of the less populous California, a route that to borrow a 50-year-old phrase from Joan Didion is also the trail of an intention gone haywire. You can pick up that trail ... [Published New York Times - May 04 2013]

Entities: Geometry, San Joaquin Valley, Agriculture

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

The Reading Party Is Tonight at 6!

Here's what Kelly O will be reading tonight. As you read on Slog yesterday, tonight's special guests are artist Amanda Manitach and Stranger photographer Kelly O. Kelly O just showed me what she'll be reading: Thee Psychick Bible, a manual about ... [Published The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper - May 02 2013]

Entities: Marquis de Sade, Joan Didion, Entrepreneur

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Discover Literary Los Angeles

By Tasbeeh Herwees Los Angeles may be better known for its Hollywood bonafides, but the city has always been home to a slew of iconic writers, from Ray Bradbury to Joan Didion, who made L.A. the backdrop of their celebrated works. Take a virtual tour ... [Published Good Magazine - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Los Angeles, Joan Didion, Ray Bradbury

First reported Apr 28 2013 - Updated Apr 28 2013 - 1 reports

Establishing Reality

(Zachary Schiller/YH Staff)Writers begin with the 26 letters of the alphabet. From there, arises infinite possibility. As an aspiring journalist, I am concerned with the compositional choices writers make in an effort to tell the truth. By âtell the truth,â ... [Published Yale Herald - Apr 28 2013]

Entities: Joan Didion, Emily Gould, Andrew Ross, Joan Baez, Nancy Reagan

First reported Apr 16 2013 - Updated Apr 16 2013 - 2 reports

Opinionator | Draft: Stupid Writer Tricks

Draft is a series about the art and craft of writing.books and literature, writing and writersOne day a couple of years ago, when I found my desk drawer so full of microphone headsets that it would no longer close, I realized it was time for an intervention. ... [Published New York Times - Apr 16 2013]

Entities: Ben Dolnick, Janet Malcolm, Dwight Garner, Anthony Trollope

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Didion told The Paris Review in 2006 that she had "started a book about california in the seventies... but i could never go anywhere with it for two reasons. one was that i still hadn't figured out california. the other was that i didn't want to figure out california because whatever i figured out would be different from the california my mother and father had told me about. i didn't want to engage that." It is an admission that, in losing her 'memory' of California, she loses a part of herself; it is an assertion that the perpetuation of national myths...

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Writer's choice 382: Isabelle Grey [Published normblog - 3 hours ago] Isabelle Grey had a teenage crush on F. Scott Fitzgerald, followed by a deep attraction to the thrill of Watergate and the chutzpah of gonzo journalism. She became, first, a freelance journalist and non-fiction author, then a television screenwriter ...
If You and Joan Didion Were Onstage Together in... [Published The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper - May 11 2013] Joan Didion will be making a Seattle Arts & Lectures appearance at Benaroya Hall on Wednesday, June 5, and if you don't already have tickets, you need to get on it. I will be there, in a tuxedo, introducing her and asking the questions, which is ...
The Reading Party Is Tonight at 6! [Published The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper - May 02 2013] Here's what Kelly O will be reading tonight. As you read on Slog yesterday, tonight's special guests are artist Amanda Manitach and Stranger photographer Kelly O. Kelly O just showed me what she'll be reading: Thee Psychick Bible, a manual about ...
Counterparties: Thundering herd immunity [Published Felix Salmon - Mar 12 2013] Welcome to the Counterparties email. The sign-up page is here , it’s just a matter of checking a box if you’re already registered on the Reuters website. Send suggestions, story tips and complaints to Counterparties.Reuters@gmail.com . Last week, ...
Books On Which to Build a Civilization: The Thu... [Published The League of Ordinary Gentlemen - Mar 10 2013] As many of you know, this week’s Thursday Night Bar Fight was a Survivor-like game where readers had to hash out which three books should be taken to a deserted island to build the culture of a new civilization. The rules were simple: Make ...