Joan Didion Deconstructs 2002

[bluenix]

...which started, of course, on September 11, 2001. She does have a way with words, doesn't she:

 

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15984

 

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Meanwhile, the Observer's Jemima Hunt interviews her:

 

http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,872872,00.html

 

 

and Andrew Sullivan rails at her (and tries his hand at textual analysis, but, alas, she's way better at it than he is):

 

http://www.andrewsullivan.com/main_article.php?artnum=20030108

[Will]

Who would have thought that I'd come across a Joan Didion thread while scrolling through the topics on Hooboy this morning! Yes, she hit the 2002 nail on the head in that NYReview piece, as she (almost) always does. Joan Didion uses words the way marksmen use bullets: efficiently, accurately, and dead on-target. I still think her essay on the Reagan governor's mansion in California is one of the great pieces of journalistic literature ever written. As for Andrew Sullivan, he used to be a major hero of mine; but I don't know what's gotten into him lately. Maybe his medication.

 

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[nate_sf]

It took me a week to get to the article once I printed it out, but was definitely worth reading. Great reference, bluenix!

[Luv2play]

For some reason, I haven't read a lot of Joan Didion's writing but took the trouble to read this piece and am glad that I did. Found myself being sympathetic to much that she said. Oh, the old leftie in me...}(