Joan Didion on 'Blue Nights'

Bookworm

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4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2013

⏱️ 29 minutes

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After the deaths of husband and daughter, Joan Didion wrote the most personal and poetic book of her impressive career...

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0:56.9	Today we're revisiting our conversation with Joan Didion
1:00.3	about her stark yet tender book Blue Nights.
1:04.2	Please enjoy.
1:05.5	Joan Didion won a Lifetime Achievement Award this year.
1:09.9	People who know the sound of my voice know that my voice
1:13.9	is full of the awe that I feel to be in the presence of a writer I truly admire. Her new book
1:21.2	is called Blue Nights. It's published by Knapp and I thought we would begin by hearing its opening section.
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