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I could make promises to myself and to other people and there would be all the time in the world to keep them. I could stay up all night and make mistakes, and none of them would count.
Dec 24, 2021 · But at the date of her death Thursday at the age of 87, Joan Didion’s 1967 essay “Goodbye to All That” remains the permanent sunspot obscuring the center-vision of many maturing...
This excerpt of “Goodbye to All That” is from Didion’s work Slouching Toward Bethlehem and made available to the public by NPR and is made available in this course under the educational purposes guidelines of fair use.
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Oct 9, 2013 · “I was in love with New York,” Joan Didion wrote in her cult-classic essay “Goodbye to All That,” titled after the famous Robert Graves autobiography and found in Slouching Towards Bethlehem — the same indispensable 1967 collection that gave us Didion on self-respect and keeping a notebook; she quickly qualified the statement: “I do not mean ‘lo...
Oct 9, 2005 · That fearsome landscape comes from a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins, quoted by Joan Didion early in her exact, candid and penetrating account of personal terror and bereavement. The geological...
Apr 28, 2024 · The Joan Didion many people know is constructed from a few artifacts the real writer left behind when she died in 2021. There’s her much-imitated (and sometimes parodied) 1967 essay “Goodbye...
This excerpt of “Goodbye to All That” is from Didion’s work Slouching Toward Bethlehem and made available to the public by NPR and is made available in this course under the educational purposes guidelines of fair use. Previous: Shakespeare on Love.
