I saw a lot of old friends and acquaintances I hadn’t seen in quite some time last weekend. And as sometimes happens for people of a certain age, shades of sorrow and remembrance for those no longer here crept into the conversation. No matter how much we try to play whack-a-mole with the Reaper, he’s […]
Tag: Joan Didion
Posted inCity Life
The Reader’s stay-at-home chronicles: days 22 and 23
What we’re reading, watching, listening to, etc., to pass the time.
Posted inFilm
In Maps to the Stars, Hollywood is a living hell
In David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars portrays the movie business as a nightmare of outsize egos.
Posted inBlogs
Lower the boom, release the Kraken, and open the kimono
The provenance of a peculiar phrase
Posted inBlogs
What’s destroying our productivity this week?
Throwing up on the Writer’s Diet website
Posted inBlogs
Q&A with Alison Bechdel: “I feel like mothers are just fucked.”
An interview with graphic novelist Alison Bechdel
Posted inBlogs
On Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, author of Harlem Is Nowhere
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts writes beautifully about Harlem
Posted inBlogs
Newt Gingrich’s Earning by Learning
Past efforts to pay kids by the Republican presidential candidate
Posted inBlogs
Our candidates, ourselves
The intellectual qualifications of the Republican primary field.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
University of Illinois’s campus crime site gives readers the story – their own
When the New York Times announced last week that Jill Abramson had been chosen as the paper’s next editor, the New Yorker‘s Ken Auletta immediately went online to hail the appointment. Auletta praised her work as the Times‘s managing editor for the past eight years and added this: “Abramson brings something else to her new […]
Posted inArts & Culture
Evening of the Living Dead
Mary Beth Fisher on performing Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking