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We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order To Live Joan Didion

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jadis

During my two years in NYC that was the writer all the cool girls (and their gays) liked. She's great!

ando here

She was constantly scoping the terrain; mental, physical and certainly the sociological. It gave her broad appeal. The Netflix doc is lopsided and ill conceived, imo. Of course she was weird. The personal lives of these mostly solitary types are rarely intriguing so the nature of your inquiry is important. Unless you’ve got a highly social figure like Sontag or Baldwin whose relationships with a wide array of people can contribute to whatever framework you’re constructing there’s the constant danger of a myopic view - and a deadly dull experience. People keep attempting them and unless their aim is something above and beyond recounting the life of the writer, boy are they tough to sit through!

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adidasss

I only read The year of magical thinking and thought it was a weirdly neutral report about the loss of her husband with some emotional clarity thrown in at the end as an afterthought. Last night we watched The centre will not hold on Netflix and after seeing how weird she was, it all made more sense. I figure she's "on the spectrum" or something. She writes very well but not sure if I would connect to any of her other writing.

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dHYANA fREEMAN

wus the word with your pro pic? just curious (no judgment zone)

Exo

Who are you asking?

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Frownland

The bulk of Slouching Towards Bethlehem really captures the essence of California in a way that I've only seen Pynchon achieve. Thank God I'm retarded enough to find something relatable in her writing.

She is the platonic ****lib in a lot of ways though.

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Marie Monday

Oh also shoutout to another book I've read lately, My Antonia by Willa Cather. She somehow manages to give an extraordinary vividness to nature, people, and situations with fairly minimal means. It's a gorgeous book

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moosegoose

Borne by Jeff Vandermeer. Abrupt and intoxicating read so far.

Exo

I enjoyed Annihilation a lot. Wasn't too keen on the second one though.

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