November 2011
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Joan... on the Occupy Movement?
“Of course the activists - not those whose thinking had become rigid, but those whose approach to revolution was imaginatively anarchic - had long ago grasped the reality which still eluded the press: we were seeing something important. We were seeing the desperate attempt of a handful of pathetically unequipped children to create a community in a social vacuum. Once we had seen these children,...
The White Party Album
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October 2011
3 posts
“You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me...”
– Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking (play)
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“I have been in the same room as Ms. Didion once ever, at an awards ceremony for...”
– Pictures of Joan Didion | The Awl
April 2011
18 posts
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“I’m not telling you to make the world better, because I don’t think...”
– Joan Didion, in a 1975 commencement address at the University of California, Riverside.
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“To the Editors:
What piques screenwriter Joan Didion so much about those...”
– The New York Review of Books, October 11, 1979.
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Watch“In Depth with Joan Didion,” May 7, 2000
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“Grammar is a piano I play by ear, since I seem to have been out of school the...”
– Joan Didion, “Why I Write”
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“When I am asked this question I consider the solace I found in geology. In its promise that the world will change but continue. Do I still find that solace? How about those river views from the ICUs? Those eddies, those tidal bores, those currents, those floes? If those aren’t about geology, what are they about? As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end? Do we get...
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“INTERVIEWER
You have said that writing is a hostile act; I have always wanted...”
– The Art of Fiction No 71, The Paris Review
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We apologize for the recent interruption of service here at Fuck Yeah Joan Didion. Real life got in the way. Curation to resume tomorrow.
“To myself I am invisible, incorporeal. I have crossed one of those rivers that...”
– Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking (play)
“Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at...”
– Paris Review - The Art of Nonfiction No. 1, Joan Didion
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“I have been a writer my entire life. As a writer, even as a child, long before...”
– Joan Didion, “After Life,” The New York Times, September 25, 2005 (excerpt from The Year of Magical Thinking)
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“When Natalie Gittelson of The New York Times Magazine recently asked Woody Allen...”
– Letter from ‘Manhattan’ by Joan Didion | The New York Review of Books
March 2011
32 posts
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Joan Didion on NPR’s Fresh Air to talk about...
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“From the beginning in California, the principal in this administration was...”
– Life at Court by Joan Didion | The New York Review of Books
WatchJoan Didion on Charlie Rose, talking about “Political Fictions,” October 16, 2001.
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“There certainly is what doctors call a “migraine personality,” and...”
– Joan Didion, “In Bed”
I feel sometimes that people forget how funny she is.
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Apologies for the light day yesterday, followers, I was busy.
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“Q: I just read an interview with Charles Schultz, the creator of Peanuts....”
– Joan Didion, interviewed by Dave Eggers for Salon, 1996.
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“But of course something other than an objection to being “discriminated against”...”
– The Women’s Movement, Joan Didion (excerpt)
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Joan Didion - Excerpt from The...
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“I remember walking across Sixty-second Street one twilight that first spring, or...”
– Joan Didion, “Goodbye to All That”
We’re getting up a decent following here at fuckyeahjoandidion, but I encourage you to reblog and spread the word so that everyone who loves Joan on tumblr can join in.
Also, submissions are not just allowed, they are encouraged! I am trying to curate as best I can, though I will not either reblog or link to full-reprints of Joan’s essays unless it’s clear they appear with the...
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WatchJoan Didion on Charlie Rose, September 17, 1996.
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“He wrote perfect sentences, too, but very indirect, very complicated. Sentences...”
– Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 71, Joan Didion
“To have that sense of one’s intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is...”
– Joan Didion, “On Self-Respect”
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“Some of what made the case so toxic was clear. The general claim those opposed...”
– The Case of Theresa Schiavo by Joan Didion | The New York Review of Books
“When we talk about the process, then, we are talking, increasingly, not about...”
– Insider Baseball by Joan Didion | The New York Review of Books
“The insistent sentimentalization of experience, which is to say the...”
– New York: Sentimental Journeys by Joan Didion | The New York Review of Books
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WatchHello new followers! I’m trying to queue up enough material that you’ll get doses of Joan several times a day here, though I suppose that will leave us all subject to vicissitudes of the barely functioning queue function. Still! If you have something you’d like to submit, you can do so here.
In the meantime, you might like to listen to Joan kick ass on this panel about the...
It would be very helpful to this blog if lovers of Joan Didion alerted their followers to its existence. Apparently tumblr is replete with them, but in order to bring a meaningful dose of Joan to your day, I need to have a wide network to draw on.
