Originally published at: Joan Didion, author and pioneering "New Journalist," RIP | Boing Boing
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Truly an excellent writer, both in form and in her unrelenting honesty – very often about herself. Anyone who wants to write professionally should read her work.
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She lived a little longer than her completely opposite number, Eve Babitz. Now the two best LA chroniclers of the late 20th century are gone. Thanks for all the books to both.
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“Slouching Towards Bethlehem”
I read that directly after I landed in Northern California 1976, it helped me with the culture shock I was going through. Joan is a word-smith of the highest order.
Love this quote!
“My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does.”
Joan Didion (1934-2021)
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In the NYRB mailout today this, really large, piece is linked.
Never forget that that racist shit of an ex-president wanted these innocent men murdered.
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