6/30/2023 0 Comments Slouching to bethlehem![]() I still am, and in rereading one of her essays, came upon Couéism, and wondered what the devil she was referencing, and why in that particular essay. You will be driven to a dictionary and/or an encyclopedia. You cannot be a casual reader, and you cannot skim over her essays. I have been rereading four of Didion’s books: Slouching Towards Bethlehem The White Album Political Fictions South and West. ![]() ![]() I am all in favor of reading the original works first, form your own opinion, and then see what someone else has to say. If you have not read any of Didion’s books, then do yourself a favor and put off reading this new book, which is a collection of critical and personal essays about many of her books. The collection of criticism is not being reviewed. A new book, Slouching Towards Los Angeles: Living and Writing by Joan Didion’s Light, has brought me back to her work. The subject matter was timely and the writing style was clear with underlying layers of complexity, and like nothing else I had read. It may have been assigned in a high school English class, or I found it in a small local bookstore. Long ago, in the last century, the first book of hers that I read was Slouching Towards Bethlehem, a collection of essays. ![]() ![]() When it was published, I could not finish reading it, and still have not. During this century, Joan Didion has become somewhat better known for personal tragedies, which she wrote about in The Year of Magical Thinking. ![]()
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