Worth a listen. Wish I could go .https://www.npr.org/2022/12/24/1145423650/new-yorker-magazine-critic-hilton-als-has-curated-an-exhibition-on-writer-joan-d
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We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction | 
Worth a listen. Wish I could go .https://www.npr.org/2022/12/24/1145423650/new-yorker-magazine-critic-hilton-als-has-curated-an-exhibition-on-writer-joan-d
pickIt's kind of odd to review this as if it's just one book of Didion essays. It's actually seven books. And I enjoyed some of them so much more than others, which is not Didion's fault—her writing is always superlative—it's just that some of the subjects she writes about aren't my thing. "Salvador," for example was really hard to finish. The stand-outs (surprising no one) are "Slouching Towards Bethlethem" and "The White Album.”
TFW you‘re on pg 1024 of a 1104-pg book...
For #Marchintoreading day 29, here is my #bookbag! My partner made it for me for my 28th birthday because he knows I worship Didion. It's perfection. ❤️?
"That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and every procrastination, every mistake, every word, all of it."
Sing to me, Joan!
We tell ourselves stories in order to live. The princess is caged in the consulate...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely... by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the 'ideas' with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria — which is our actual experience.
Here's some from the shelves. I haven't been brave enough to crack the Terkel yet. #ilikebigbooks #booktober
I usually think of short stories as fiction but this is a collection of non fiction essays. It is what I have, so I'm putting it out there! #shortstories #septphotochallenge #somethingforseptember
What a fantastic day! Surprise birthday gift arrived! Not one, but two books on my TBR list!
Library presents! Joan Didion (now quite famously) wrote, "We tell ourselves stories in order to live." I'm so looking forward to re-reading her essays--with a side-serving of Wallace Stevens. Very happy w/ my library haul today!
