Author Evelyn McDonnell On Joan Didion’s Life and Legacy (Pt 2)
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🗓️ 10 February 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan continues his conversation with writer, academic and associate professor of journalism, Evelyn McDonnell. Together they discuss the obstacles and how to get through them, the illusion of stability, how staying calm can be contagious, and her book The World According to Joan Didion.
Evelyn McDonnell, professor of journalism in the LMU Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts, has been appointed the inaugural faculty director of Media Arts & A Just Society (MAJS), effective January 2024. The acclaimed journalist, essayist, critic, feminist, native Californian, and university professor who regularly teaches Didion’s work, is attuned to interpret Didion’s vision for readers today.
Inspired by Didion’s own words—from her works both published and unpublished—and informed by the people who knew Didion and those whose lives she shaped, The World According to Joan Didion is an illustrated journey through her life, tracing the path she carved from Sacramento, Portuguese Bend, Los Angeles, and Malibu to Manhattan, Miami, and Hawaii. McDonnell reveals the world as it was seen through Didion’s eyes.
Signed copies of The World According to Joan Didion are available at The Painted Porch.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a |
| 0:08.4 | meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics, something to help you live up to those four stoic virtues of courage, |
| 0:15.7 | justice, temperance, and wisdom. |
| 0:18.3 | And then here on the weekend, we take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview stoic philosophers. We explore at |
| 0:26.8 | length how these stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenge and issues of our time. |
| 0:35.7 | Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down, be |
| 0:41.0 | sure to take some time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with your journal, and most importantly |
| 0:47.3 | to prepare for what the week ahead may bring. |
| 0:56.0 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. |
| 0:57.0 | Welcome to another episode of the Daily Soapoc guys. |
| 1:00.0 | I don't know if you can hear that squeaking. |
| 1:02.0 | Squaking there. That is Joan Didian's chair. I'm sitting in |
| 1:06.4 | Joan Didian's chair and today's episode was recorded at Joan Didian's table. |
| 1:11.2 | If you listen to the podcast regularly, you know that some special little |
| 1:15.4 | special piece of history that the Daily Stokes studio is built around, fellow Sacramento |
| 1:22.4 | writing hero of mine, and I think a great lower-case stoic and just an |
| 1:26.4 | absolutely fascinating woman, Joan Didian, love her books. I've read almost all of |
| 1:32.4 | them. We carry a bunch of them in the |
| 1:33.5 | painted porch and so I was really excited when today's guest book came out |
| 1:36.7 | the world according to Joan Didion by Evelyn at McDonnell and it's a great |
| 1:40.5 | biography I think the first great biography |
| 1:43.2 | of a figure who I'm sure people will be writing |
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