Word: didion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Author Joan Didion (Play It as It Lays, Slouching Towards Bethlehem) at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.: What I want to tell you today is not to move into that world where you're alone with your self and your mantra and your fitness program or whatever it is that you might use to try to control the world by closing it out. I want to tell you to just live in the mess. Throw yourself out into the convulsions of the world. I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't believe progress...
...White and Blue is an excellent example of Randall Jarrell's definition of the novel as a long narrative that has something wrong with it. Tightly made in its parts, the book sags as a whole. Dunne, a journalist and, with Wife Joan Didion, writer of such filmscripts as A Star Is Born and True Confessions, seems to have put his notebooks, filing cabinet and even his sock drawer to good use. His descriptions of courtrooms and Hollywood living rooms suggest nimble legwork and a fine ear. Agent to agent: "You can say what you want about communism, but those...
...course, "Expository Writing 17: The Essay," is a subsection of the current option "Theory and Practice of Writing." Students taking the course will analyze essays by great writers, such as Joan Didion and E.B. White, and try to incorporate the writers' techniques into their own pieces, according to a course description...
...essay, "The Sunshine Girls: Renata Adler and Joan Didion," he points points to the simplistic, "unearned nibilism" these authors have adopted from the tradition of modernism Elsewhere the castigates those writers who reduce affairs of the heart to a affairs of the glands. Epstein wants literatures sustain man and make him "better." Unfortunately, the feminists and leftists Epstein attacks claim that the amelioration and richness of life lie within the conflicts of politics and gender. Quickly and predictably, the argument turns from literature to philosophy and politics...
...firmly under control that only a few strokes-Frances Landau's "slightly hyperthyroid face," Paul Christian's saying, "Sorry, I've made other plans" to people wishing him a nice day-are needed to fill out a character. One is left to ponder why Didion nudges the reader so, insisting that her story keeps getting away from her. The truth may be that she is reluctant to let go of it, and of times that were full of imaginative and moral possibilities for a novelist. An odd case of nostalgia but a sympathetic one. -By Martha Duffy