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Joan Didion in 2008. Photo (cc) 2013 by David Shankbone.
There is a moment in the Joan Didion documentary “The Center Will Not Hold” that says a lot about Didion, about writing and about journalism. The filmmaker, her nephew Griffin Dunne, asks her about a scene in her 1968 essay “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” (included in a collection of the same name) in which she describes a 5-year-old girl who’s tripping on LSD.
Didion thinks about it for a moment, her arms in motion from Parkinson’s disease, and then replies: “It was gold.” And so it was. Horrifying though the scene may have been, any journalist wants to be able to witness such things and tell the world about them. Didion’s account of 1967 Haight-Ashbury remains definitive, and it’s because of her eye for detail. Here’s the scene in question:
oan Didion has been consecrated in her own lifetime. In the five decades since
Slouching Towards Bethlehem, her work, particularly her non-fiction, 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?
Partly the chilled prose – ahead of its time, anticipating both the personal essay boom and the numbed affect that would become typical of Generation X. But also her extraordinary insight. Nathaniel Rich, prefacing
(Photo by Spencer Grant)
University of California Television (UCTV) is making a host of videos available on its website during this period of social distancing. Among them, with descriptions courtesy of UCTV (text written by UCTV staff):
“How We Learn Vs. How We Think We Learn”: There are negative associations with the word “forget,” and we often envision ourselves as striving not to forget things. But according to Robert Bjork, Distinguished Research Professor in the UCLA Department of Psychology, forgetting is actually an important component of learning and memory. In his words, “Forgetting, rather than undoing learning, enables learning and focuses remembering.” Bjork maintains that humans misunderstand our system of remembering and forgetting as it relates to learning. Consequently, the decisions we make about managing our own learning are not optimal. Additionally, we grapple with societal assumptions and attitudes that actually reinforce behaviors counterproductiv
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