Ah, yes, Joan Didion's revolutionary therapy revelation: start where you are. Who would've thought a psychiatrist might suggest such a radical approach? Meanwhile, readers are left wondering what we've all been doing wrong – probably just living life without Vogue-approved #guidance.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/07/what-we-knew-without-knowing #JoanDidion #TherapyRevelation #StartWhereYouAre #MentalHealth #VogueApproved #HackerNews #ngated

The year of magical thinking will last longer than a year.

#FortuneCookieBasedOnABook
#HashTagGames
#JoanDidion

The brilliant #JoanDidion on the #SantaAna winds.

#LosAngeles
#ClimateChange

#JoanDidion on the #SantaAnaWinds.

#LosAngeles
#ClimateChange

2024’s best fiction and nonfiction books https://www.inbella.com/805412/2024s-best-fiction-and-nonfiction-books/ #books #CelebrityMemoirs #Cher #Entertainment #EntertainmentNews #FrankZappa #GeorgeStephanopoulos #GriffinDunne #JoanDidion #JohnDunne #memoirs #PostScript #publishing #SalmanRushdie

Passend zu der „Jeder lügt sich seine Welt zurecht“-Beobachtung aus #Disclaimer:

Die #VanityFair hat gerade einen grandiosen Artikel über Joan Didion.

Ihr dachtet auch, Joan Didion hätte sich nur durch Talent und Fleiß von einem Einsteiger-Job bei der Vogue zum literarischen Superstar hochgearbeitet?

Es gibt da auch eine andere Variante, mit einer Figur, die sonst gern unter den Tisch fällt.

#LongRead #JoanDidion

https://flip.it/s2pqRl

WORDS WORTH BOOKS CELEBRATES 40TH ANNIVERSARY

https://communityedition.ca/words-worth-books-celebrates-40th-anniversary/

#JoanDidion's #TheYearOfMagicalThinking is such a gift for those who mourn, who understand so deeply what she means when she writes, "I look for resolution and find none." If #grief is a frequent companion, read (or reread) her #memoir and know you are not alone.

"(Was there time to go back? Could we have a different ending on Pacific time?)"

Reread what I think is one of, if not the, most powerful #memoirs about #grief. Here #Didion imagines the three hour time difference between #NYC and #LA as an opportunity to create a different story, an interval in which to intervene and deny the death that had happened.

#JoanDidion, #TheYearOfMagicalThinking

It's #BrainAwarenessWeek & one of the activities that's good for your #brain is reading. Here are some book recommendations. What would you suggest?

#PattiSmith, Just Kids
#MatJohnson, Pym
#JoanDidion, The Year of Magical Thinking
#KaitlynGreenidge, Libertie
#JasonMott, Hell of a Book
#JuliaMayJonas, Vladimir
#DashaKiper, Travelers to Unimaginable Lands: Stories of #Dementia, The #Caregiver, and the Human Brain
#PercivalEverett, The Trees
#rachelyoder, Nightbitch

#BooksWorthReading
#BanTheBan

It's #BrainAwarenessWeek & one of the activities that's good for your #brain is reading. Here are some book recommendations. What would you suggest?

#PattiSmith, Just Kids
#MatJohnson, Pym
#JoanDidion, The Year of Magical Thinking
#KaitlynGreenidge, Libertie
#JasonMott, Hell of a Book
#JuliaMayJonas, Vladimir
#DashaKiper, Travelers to Unimaginable Lands: Stories of #Dementia, The #Caregiver, and the Human Brain
#PercivalEverett, The Trees
#rachelyoder, Nightbitch

#bookstodon
#litstudies

Grief comes "in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken
the knees.”

#JoanDidion was born on this day in 1934. She gave us many gifts, including #TheYearOfMagicalThinking, which is one of the most beautiful, melancholy, and true representations of #grief I have ever read.

#litstudies
#bookstodon

#JoanDidion was born on this day in 1934. She gave us many gifts, including #TheYearOfMagicalThinking, which is one of the most beautiful, melancholy, and true representations of #grief I have ever read.

#litstudies
#bookstodon

The Threads logo, left, is a rip-off of the jacket of Joan Didion’s 1971 novel «Play it as it Lays», detail on right. Art from @FontsInUse https://fontsinuse.com/uses/49669/play-it-as-it-lays-by-joan-didion-bantam

I'm rereading Joan Didion's collection of essays, The White Album, for the first time in decades. Dredges up memories of how it felt in the late 60s/early 70s, an inkling of the energy during my youth that doubtless shaped me. No film about the period stirs up so much. The power of books. Her writing is unique & evocative of the era. @bookstodon #reading #books #JoanDidion

Two of the most powerful books I've ever read are Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights. If you're passionate about the craft of writing, or simply a Joan Didion fan, here's her interview with KCRW's Michael Silverblatt, about the process of writing the former.

#JoanDidion
#TheYearOfMagicalThinking
#Bookworm
#Writing
#Grief

https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/bookworm/joan-didion-2

Since I've blown far past any sane person's idea of an appropriate number of books to buy oneself for Christmas, I'm sneaking this one in under the guise of a New Year's present.

I fully intend to buy fewer books in 2023 (buy them more mindfully, rather) but according to my calendar it's still 2022, thanks very much!

"Why do these ordinary things hold such fascination? We are still mesmerized by the images of Didion: the sybil’s gaze, the glossy hair, the elegant carriage. We are fascinated by her view of how it is to be human, the way she marries glamour and despair. By her investigation of the twentieth century, her chronicle of the slow march of the American dream toward oblivion. "

Joan Didion’s Priceless Sunglasses
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/joan-didions-priceless-sunglasses