This begins a series posts from a work in progress: The Forty-Nine, an upcoming novel in letters. Excerpts of each letter will be posted in sequence. To browse them in order from the beginning, jump to Letter #1. In the lower right of each post, you can then advance to the next. Dear Joan, Dear Joan. Is that okay? A […]
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Joan Didion: Writing is the ability to change reality
Joan, I turn to you for straight talk. You say writing is the ability to change reality, change the beginning, change the end, to upend death and make immortal. Yup, yup, so let’s dive in and do just that. When you say the year of magical thinking, I’m going balls to the wall and magical it’s gonna be. I think […]
