@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social📰 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 23 September 1967, #JoanDidion's essay “Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” her look at the dark side of the Haight-Ashbury counterculture during the Summer of Love, was published in the Saturday Evening Post.
@seanbugg.bsky.socialThe first time I saw someone die was on a tennis court. Reading Joan Didion’s memoir of her grief at the sudden death of her husband, John Dunne, sent me back to that teenage moment when I tried to comfort a woman who was losing her husband.
#JoanDidion #grief #memoir #BookSky 💙📚
@jomalby.bsky.social“Write it down… and then some morning when the world seems drained of wonder, some day when I am only going through the motions… I will simply open my #notebook and there it will be, a forgotten account with accumulated interest, paid passage back to the world.” ~ #JoanDidion #writesky
@carlmuehleisen.bsky.socialThis week’s read.
#blueskybooks
#joandidion
#letmetellyouwhatimean
#essays
#greatread
