mudwerks:(via Joan Didion, ‘New Journalist’ Who Explored Culture and Chaos, Dies at 87 - The New Yor
mudwerks:(via Joan Didion, ‘New Journalist’ Who Explored Culture and Chaos, Dies at 87 - The New York Times) Joan Didion in 1972. “Her talent was for writing about the mood of the culture,” the writer Katie Roiphe said. “She managed to channel the spirit of the 1960s and ’70s through her own highly idiosyncratic and personal — that is, seemingly personal — writing.”Joan Didion, whose mordant dispatches on California culture and the chaos of the 1960s established her as a leading exponent of the New Journalism, and whose novels “Play It as It Lays” and “The Book of Common Prayer” proclaimed the arrival of a tough, terse, distinctive voice in American fiction, died on Thursday at her home in Manhattan. She was 87. -- source link