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Thursday, December 22, 2005

UD’s Quick Take…
on a profile of
Joan Didion



“While many of her journalistic peers got carried away in the 60s, Didion wrote with a cool head in accordance with the principle that the lower the temperature of her prose, the higher the emotional voltage it could carry.”

Excellent!





“Her self-possession is such that the mere act of breathing in her presence feels like a vulgar transgression.”

A bit de trop.
Posted at: 12/22/2005 08:31:00 AM