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Joan Didion’s California: Dreams and Contradictions
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Quatre livres en anglais : Joan Didion, Notes to John ; Elif Shafak, The Architect's Apprentice ; William S. Burroughs, Queer ; James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room © #VendrediLecture 20260327 Gilles Denizot

#VendrediLecture 📚️ Bon, je me suis offert quelques livres… Bonne lecture, le monde ! #JoanDidion #ElifShafak #WilliamBurroughs #JamesBaldwin

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Black and white photo of Joan Didion with a quote attached, "It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive." Joan Didion 📸 Unknown

#quotes #writer #joandidion

Slouching Towards the Space Needle A few things I learned about my new home & myself at the October Seattle #NoKings March | #Antifa

Oh, snap!! I’ve been trying for a month or 2 to try to get a piece into #TheLeftisRight, a #MediumPublication I read regularly & ❤️, and…

What do you know?? They repubbed by #NoKings #Seattle March piece 🤩

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It’s predicated on some #JoanDidion quotes & #antifa vibe 💁‍♀️

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#SlouchingTowardsBethlehem
#JoanDidion

A sign…San Francisco
My Christopher Robin wandered away.
He called April 10th
But he hasn’t called since
He said he was coming home
But he hasn’t shown.

If you see him on Haight
Please tell him not to wait
I need him…
If he needs the bread
I’ll send it ahead.

#SlouchingTowardsBethlehem
#JoanDidion
first time I had dealt directly and flatly with the evidence of atomization…been paralyzed by the conviction that writing was an irrelevant act, that the world as I had understood it no longer existed…it would be necessary for me to come to terms with disorder.

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I first came across #JoanDidion’s line, “I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking,” long before I read the essay it comes from, “Why I Write” (1976) […]

Joan Didion's SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM cover

Read SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM by #JoanDidion. A strange beast: reads contemporary and remains relevant despite being a reports of the past. Fluid, efficient, and lively but steeped in melancholia with flashes of despair. Recommended. #BookSky

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Author of the Year

The most significant author who died in 2021:

Joan Didion (1934-2021)

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A lot of my #writing is based on this very idea! 🤓

Try my reportage of the #Seattle #NoKings march in Oct, if you’re curious what I’m like:

I ogle a hot cop, weep profusely, throw someone I like under the bus, quote #JoanDidion…

It’s very me 💁‍♀️

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30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 #books one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen Day 23 #joandidion #grief

#JoanDidion #SalmanRushdie #VirginiaWoolf

Meet martin bihl | ECD at LevLane and Founder & Editor at The Agency Review - SHOUTOUT ARIZONA We had the good fortune of connecting with martin bihl...

I namecheck #FrankLowe, #JoanDidion, #MarkRothko & #TheloniousMonk and still manage to jam in some stuff about #baseball and #writing. So pretty much a normal day at the office. My interview with #ShoutOutArizona: shoutoutarizona.com/meet-martin-... #creativity #advertising #risk #marketing

Joan Didion and Kurt Vonnegut Had Something to Say. We Have It on Tape.

Fascinating to hear these short snippets of famous authors (Baldwin, Didion, Vonnegut and more) speaking at presentations:

#JamesBaldwin #JoanDidion #KurtVonnegut

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Joan Didion (1934-2021), American writer

Died #otd Joan Didion (1934-2021), American writer, 4 years ago today #JoanDidion life story...

"Character – the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life – is the source from which self-respect springs."

✒️ Remembering #JoanDidion, who passed away #OTD 23 December 2021. '#Literature

Este n.º de #GrantaEnEspanol reúne a las 7️⃣ naciones del istmo centroamericano: Belice, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panamá y El Salvador.
Rescata reportajes inéditos en español como el de #JoanDidion en ese país en 1982.

🎟️ Entrada libre
🔴 #EnDirecto: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyFz...

Why Joan Didion Hated the Police The week before Democratic Party delegates arrived in Chicago in late-August 1968 for what promised to be a combustible national convention—with delegates, antiwar protesters, and the Chicago polic…

« I do not go around using words like ‘blue Fascism,’ but it has been a very long time since I thought of a cop as a friend in blue. » lithub.com/why-joan-did...

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¡Enero!

Joan Didion & Eve Babitz

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#dirtyworkseditorial #recomendacionesdirty #librakens #didionybabitz #elotrohollywood #lilianolik #joandidion #evebabitz #jefazas #putoamismoextremoalcubo #guerrerasdelafiestaantigua #gentebonita #gentefetén #genteflipante

bowl of porridge with nuts and berries

you have to pick the places you don't walk away from
#joandidion #botd

There's a reason Joan Didion's work endures: she changed the way we wrote | Brigid Delaney The master of the personal essay taught us it’s not enough to ask ‘what happened?’ if you neglect ‘how did it feel?’

There's a reason Joan Didion's work endures: She changed the way we wrote.
(Brigid Delaney - The Guardian)
#JoanDidion #BOTD

The master of the personal essay taught us it’s not enough to ask ‘what happened?’ if you neglect ‘how did it feel.

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American Essayist and innovative chronicler of West Coast subculture Joan Didion, born on this day in Sacramento in 1934.
#JoanDidion #BOTD

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live... We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices.”

“You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.”

Happy Birthday #JoanDidion

December 5 is the birthday of writer #JoanDidion who we #quote and back with a picture of last night’s #Fallbrook #sunset. If this #quotograph speaks to you, please repost it.

We are the stories we tell ourselves
#lovemothernature #thanksandpraise #lightandlove #liminalspace #shinrinyoku #darkforest #moonmagic #walkthebeautyway #closetotheoaks #joandidion #snowywoods #occultsky #pagansky #heathensky

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. (pg. 3) On the evening of 30th December 2003, Joan Didion sat down to dinner with her husband an…

For Joan Didion, #bornonthisday in 1934, my thoughts on THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING.

A deeply personal exploration of death, grief, marriage and memory. It’s probably my favourite of her remarkable books. #BOTD #JoanDidion #BookSky 💙📚

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I am still committed to the idea that the ability to think for one’s self depends upon one’s mastery of the language.

- Joan Didion, an American writer & journalist,
Slouching Towards Bethlehem,
born on this day, 1934

#BookSky
#JoanDidion

"Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs."

✒ Remembering #JoanDidion, American author and journalist, who was #BOTD 5 December 1934. #Literature

Susan Sontag souriante à son bureau sur la couverture de À propos des femmes, un recueil d’essais féministes inédits

Joan Didion chez elle sur la couverture de son recueil dédié à son mari, Lettres à John

Week-end lecture avec dames #susansontag #joandidion