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Corrections: March 14, 2020
March 14, 2021
ARTS & LEISURE
An attribution attached to a quote with an article on Page 10 about New York’s cultural landscape in the moments before it shut down in March 2020 misspells the given name of an actress. She is Brittney Mack, not Brittsney.
MAGAZINE
The second KenKen puzzle on Page 57 this weekend is inadvertently repeated from last week’s issue. Two new KenKens will resume appearing next weekend.
A poem by Nikky Finney on Feb. 28 omitted a word in the first line. The line should be: It is the pearl-blue peep of day
BOOK REVIEW
Because of an editing error, a review on Feb. 14 about “Let Me Tell You What I Mean,” by Joan Didion, misstated the criminal offenses that Martha Stewart was convicted of in 2004. Though she was investigated for insider trading, Stewart was found guilty of other related charges. She was not “sentenced to prison for insider trading.”
Rejection letters, California dreams and clear reflections on writing in a collection that explores self-doubt
Searching for the self ⦠Joan Didion in 1981. Photograph: Janet Fries/Getty Images
Searching for the self ⦠Joan Didion in 1981. Photograph: Janet Fries/Getty Images
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In the first essay of this new volume of previously uncollected pieces, Joan Didion makes a case against newspapers. Too often, she argues, their reporting style rests on âa quite factitious â objectivityââ, which âlends the entire venture a mendacityâ by failing to make explicit the writerâs own particular set of influences and biases. Didion praises instead magazines that cultivate a personal voice, and which aim to impart character and atmosphere rather than straightforward information: âThey assume that the reader is a friend, that he is disturbed about something, and th
California s next Joan Didion can sing
Feb. 28, 2021
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For one thing, she can sing.
Phoebe Bridgers, a brilliant and versatile 26-year-old musician and songwriter, isn’t just contending for four Grammy awards this March. She is challenging the status of Joan Didion, now 86, as the most nationally respected and quotable of California interpreters.
Such a challenge is long overdue. It’s been 40 years since New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani declared that “California belongs to Joan Didion,” and the British novelist Martin Amis (backhandedly) praised her “almost embarrassingly sharp ear and unblinking eye for the California inanity.” Didion’s accounts of the Golden State, in both novels and essays, still influence American perceptions of our state, even though she moved to New York in 1988, and her work is mostly about a mid-century California that died with Jerry Brown’s first governorship. While Didion may have a new essay anthology out this
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