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Those events--her husband's death and her daughter's illness--are the subject of Didion's memoir The Year of Magical Thinking (Knopf; 227 pages). And as it turned out, nobody, not even Joan Didion, could have been ready for them...
...ANYBODY COULD HAVE been prepared for what happened to Joan Didion, it should have been Joan Didion. At 70, she is the author of five novels and seven works of nonfiction, all of which are distinguished by enormous intellectual force, an impatience with sentimentality and a general intolerance for bunk. Didion is one of the great clear thinkers and dry-eyed observers of her generation. When people talk about somebody being a tough customer, Didion is the kind of person they're talking about...
...teenager in 1986. The Squid and the Whale is domestic tragedy recollected as comedy: a film whose catalog of deceits and embarrassments, and of love pratfalling over itself, makes it as (excruciatingly) painful as it is (exhilaratingly) funny. Its family quartet--including Laura Linney as wife Joan, Jesse Eisenberg as 16-year-old Walt and Owen Kline as his 12-year-old brother Frank--is a fearless, faultless acting ensemble...
Friday, Oct. 14. “The Year of Magical Thinking.” The prolific writer Joan Didion recounts her husband’s sudden death and her daughter’s extraordinary recovery from a massive blood clot. 6:30 p.m. First Parish Church, 3 Church St. $3. Tickets can be purchased at Harvard Book Store or by calling...
...master documentarian as well as a prime picturemaker, Scorsese uses interviews with dozens of important figures from the New York City folk, poetry and blues scene--Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Dave Van Ronk, Allen Ginsberg, Al Kooper--to recreate the impact when Bobby Zimmerman of Hibbing, Minn., hit town in January 1961 on a pilgrimage to visit the ailing Guthrie. Dylan went right to work, sponging up all manner of folk influences, spending days in the library reading U.S. history, ingesting every book of poetry he found in the apartments of friends who let him sleep over...