Joan Didion Receives NBF's 2007 life-time achievement award
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- Part 2 of 2 - Joan Didion accepts the National Book Foundation's life-time achievement award for American writers. Recorded November 14, 2007, at the National Book Awards Dinner and Ceremony in New York City.
grand damme of letters...genuinely humble; paying tribute to another writer at the end of her speech.
My favorite of her essays was "On Self Respect" because of how spot-on it is!
That, and her essay on feminism, should be read a re-read by every young man and woman in the Englis speaking world.
highly underrated...a master.
My favorite essay is On Morality. It’s a very earthy, even primal, piece befitting the locale where it was written. The news from The Snake about the widow’s lonely sentinel staring into the water stuck in my mind.
Didion's "Some Dreamers of the Golden Dreams" remains, today, many years after it was written, a supreme example of what an essay should be. And in writing it she did something that had never been accomplished before: she used the techniques of fiction to make more vivid the reality of the very non-fiction story she was telling. That approach has now been co-opted by many other writers -- but it is worth nothing that Didion basically invented the approach. She's going to be much missed.
S I T D O W N .
Outstanding lady.
Simply the best...
Slouching Toward Bethlehem and The White Album should be required reading for those who lived through the 60's but were not paying attention.
Why not those who did pay attention?