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Showing posts with label The Year of Magical Thinking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Year of Magical Thinking. Show all posts
Tuesday, 12 August 2025

How to write like Joan Didion

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What makes a Joan Didion sentence unmistakable? It’s not only the vocabulary or the rhythm. It’s the control. The precise needlepoint balanc...
Sunday, 20 July 2025

Grief, grammar, and the Didion sentence: Rereading The Year of Magical Thinking

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For me, few books confront grief with the unflinching clarity of Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking. It is one of my favourite o...
Tuesday, 1 April 2025

Joan Didion and the art of emotional precision: What writers can learn from her style

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Joan Didion never wasted a word. Her prose was as spare as it was surgical. It was a style that she forged as a journalist and later honed i...
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