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In Memory of Joan Didion: 'Blue Nights'

Jan 13, 2022
30:02
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Introduction
00:00 • 4min
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Blue Nights by Joan Didion
03:47 • 2min
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How Did You Find Yourself Able to Complete This Book?
05:35 • 2min
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The Book Takes a Special Form of Completion
07:11 • 2min
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You Don't Have to Finish Thisu Yu
08:57 • 2min
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Is Your Story to Tell?
11:02 • 2min
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Do You Feel Sorry for Yourself?
12:49 • 2min
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Bookworm Interview With Joan Didion
14:51 • 6min
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A Didian Page Becomes Rerecognizable Because of Single Sentence
20:44 • 2min
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The Book Ends Like This, and Yet You're Not Here
22:40 • 2min
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Writing the Play of the Year of Magical Thinking
24:43 • 2min
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Slash Bookworm
26:20 • 2min
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After the deaths of her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and her daughter, Quintana, Joan Didion wrote "Blue Nights," the most personal and poetic book of her career. From 2011, she talks about aging, death, and the act of complete surrender that this devastating book required.

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