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Victoria: Based on Joan Didion's best-selling memoir, The Year Of Magical Thinking captures the compassion, humour and bewilderment of a fiercely intelligent woman whose world lurches suddenly from the ordinary to the unimaginable.
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NYT Media columnist David Carr just Twittered a caption for his latest filing, summoning the title of Joan Didion's legendary essay about her New York experience, and having to leave it behind. Is...
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
Victoria: Based on Joan Didion's best-selling memoir, The Year Of Magical Thinking captures the compassion, humour and bewilderment of a fiercely intelligent woman whose world lurches suddenly from the ordinary to the unimaginable.
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Victoria: Based on Joan Didion's best-selling memoir, The Year Of Magical Thinking captures the compassion, humour and bewilderment of a fiercely intelligent woman whose world lurches suddenly from the ordinary to the unimaginable.
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Victoria: Based on Joan Didion's best-selling memoir, The Year Of Magical Thinking captures the compassion, humour and bewilderment of a fiercely intelligent woman whose world lurches suddenly from the ordinary to the unimaginable.
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Victoria: Based on Joan Didion's best-selling memoir, The Year Of Magical Thinking captures the compassion, humour and bewilderment of a fiercely intelligent woman whose world lurches suddenly from the ordinary to the unimaginable.
A Writer's Desk (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
It begins... When I first encountered Joan Didion, I was on a bus heading back to my apartment in the middle of the night. This was in Cambridge, Mass., in 1975, and I had picked up a paperback copy of Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Didion’s first nonfiction collection. The opening piece, “Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream,” begins with a description of the San Bernardino Valley, east...
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Victoria: Based on Joan Didion's best-selling memoir, The Year Of Magical Thinking captures the compassion, humour and bewilderment of a fiercely intelligent woman whose world lurches suddenly from the ordinary to the unimaginable.
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Victoria: Based on Joan Didion's best-selling memoir, The Year Of Magical Thinking captures the compassion, humour and bewilderment of a fiercely intelligent woman whose world lurches suddenly from the ordinary to the unimaginable.
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Victoria: Based on Joan Didion's best-selling memoir, The Year Of Magical Thinking captures the compassion, humour and bewilderment of a fiercely intelligent woman whose world lurches suddenly from the ordinary to the unimaginable.
Alienated Left (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
McChrystal’s “Counter-insurgency” plan sounds good on paper – and might be that way in practice, but the reality of counter-insurgency operations so far has been death squads, murder, torture and disappearances General Stanley McChrystal’s plan for Afghanistan says the focus should be on troops on the ground fighting a “counter-insurgency” war to “protect...
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Victoria: Based on Joan Didion's best-selling memoir, The Year Of Magical Thinking captures the compassion, humour and bewilderment of a fiercely intelligent woman whose world lurches suddenly from the ordinary to the unimaginable.
escapegrace (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Zadie Smith wonders what essays offer to a novelist : Within the confines of an essay or – even better! – an aphorism, you can be the writer you dream of being. No word out of place, no tell-tale weak spots (dialogue, the convincing representation of other people, plot), no absences, no lack. I think it's the limits of the essay, and of the real, that truly attract fiction writers. In the...
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Bob Thompson in The American Scholar: When I first encountered Joan Didion, I was on a bus heading back to my apartment in the middle of the night. This was in Cambridge, Mass., in 1975, and I had picked up...
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Victoria: Based on Joan Didion's best-selling memoir, The Year Of Magical Thinking captures the compassion, humour and bewilderment of a fiercely intelligent woman whose world lurches suddenly from the ordinary to the unimaginable.
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