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Book World: Joan Didion s Let Me Tell You What I Mean shows a writer ahead of her time
Charles Arrowsmith, The Washington Post
Feb. 9, 2021
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By Joan Didion
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Joan Didion has been consecrated in her own lifetime. In the five decades since Slouching Towards Bethlehem, her work, particularly her nonfiction, has been widely celebrated. In 2013, President Barack Obama awarded her the National Humanities Medal. She was the subject, in 2017, of a Netflix documentary, The Center Will Not Hold. South and West, published the same year, showed that even her notes would sell. This April, the Library of America will release the second volume of its definitive edition of her work. What has fixed her in the collective imagination?
As someone who practically ran screaming from fiction writing in college, the idea of telling effective stories always seemed to belong to someone else, not me. For many years, I resisted working on my storytelling skills by clinging solidly to the idea that I was a nonfiction writer. But I
TOLEDO â Registration is now open for art classes offered by the Toledo Museum of Art.
On Jan. 24, the standard Winter/Spring art class schedule will start, offering both onsite and virtual workshops. This will be the first time since March that onsite classes resume at TMA. The museumâs new sculpture studio will be open, providing a space for sculpture classes to be taught for the first time since the summer.
The deadline for registration for Session 1 is Jan. 10, with classes beginning the week of Jan. 24. For Session 2, the registration deadline is Feb. 14, with classes beginning the week of Feb. 28.
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IMAGE: Spirit, culture and community are core attributes to the health of an Aboriginal women s heart. view more
Credit: Photo by Steve Evans
More than a decade after committing $130+ billion to Closing the Gap, there has been little improvement in health outcomes experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations.
A significant life expectancy gap remains, with cardiovascular disease the leading cause of death for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, responsible for almost 20 per cent of this gap.
So where have things gone wrong?
A new study led by University of South Australia PhD candidate Katharine McBride in partnership with Aboriginal women suggests the answer may lie partially in the Government s failure to approach health from an Aboriginal perspective.