I've listened to this multiple times. This is fantastic and never gets old. You provide valuable insight.

Great lecture! Helped to clear up a lot of questions I had regarding Didion’s style, and the motif of innocence in the book. Looking forward to tuning in to more of your lectures!

@johnpistelli9092

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Appreciate this! Just finished Slouching Towards Bethlehem and this provides some great context

I love the insight on how the smaller silent generation and Gen X produced the greatest writers.

such a honest description! loved the lecture!

Thank you!

I would say it had to do with the fact that both of those generations were more conservative and thus more realistic. I think there realistic look at the world helps make their writing much more meaningful.

Can tell more about who you are and what you do? Enjoying. Thanks

Didion passed. Do u have more video about her? Her legacy?

@johnpistelli9092

2 жыл бұрын

Not in video format, but if you search her name at johnpistelli.com, you'll find several essays about her other works.

@jt2465

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnpistelli9092 I mean your work on her work

@jt2465

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnpistelli9092 oh wow. Pardon me. Just saw what you meant. The next day after she died, you wouldn't believe this: someone gifted me the novel: The Last Thing He Wanted!

She was "skeptical" of The Movement? She was withering.

She described the left accurately. That’s why she’s marginalized in Norton. It’s a pretty straightforward unpersoning for thoughtcrime. Also, admiring John Wayne probably didn’t help.