Joan Didion: Her (Stoic) Life and Legacy (With Evelyn McDonnell)
On this episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan continues his conversation with writer, academic and associate professor of journalism, Evelyn McDonnell. Together they discuss the obstacles and how to get through them, the illusion of stability, how staying calm can be contagious, and her book The World According to Joan Didion.
Evelyn McDonnell, professor of journalism in the LMU Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts, has been appointed the inaugural faculty director of Media Arts & A Just Society (MAJS), effective January 2024. The acclaimed journalist, essayist, critic, feminist, native Californian, and university professor who regularly teaches Didion’s work, is attuned to interpret Didion’s vision for readers today.
Inspired by Didion’s own words-from her works both published and unpublished-and informed by the people who knew Didion and those whose lives she shaped, The World According to Joan Didion is an illustrated journey through her life, tracing the path she carved from Sacramento, Portuguese Bend, Los Angeles, and Malibu to Manhattan, Miami, and Hawaii. McDonnell reveals the world as it was seen through Didion’s eyes.
Signed copies of The World According to Joan Didion are available at The Painted Porch (www.thepaintedporch.com/produ...)
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Love Joan didion !!
super insightful around being unprepared for the hardships life throws us, even when on an intellectual level we know they are inevitable, a part of us wants to believe it will never happen to us.
Amazing dialogue and discourse for the day. Joan Didion is a heavyweight in terms of philosophical innovators. I would put her up there with Jaques Derrida and Michel Foucault in terms of the true quality of their body of work. Foucault also dealt heavily with the ethics of a "police state", individual freedoms, and freedoms of how we express ourselves physically and emotionally.
I'm so happy about this vídeo. Joan was very stoic I think. I would love a vídeo about Anna Wintour because I think she is very much stoic as well
Dunne literally drops dead mid sentence about 24 hours after Didion told him that he didn't have a choice. She wrote that she wondered if he did after all. She never took his option.
The World According to Joan Didion. Would have enjoyed reading it more if it were set in Bodoni, the typeface used in the publication of Blue Nights. An easier task for aging eyes.
I couldn't reach you out on email it sent me to your site. But even there I couldn't figure out how to sent you a thought that bugged me. Later I got the idea of copying and pasting the email I first wanted to sent to you. So here it is: "I really appreciate the daily insights! But I got a question on the concept of "Memento Mori". Don't you think that's practicing the four virtues of Stoicism for the wrong reason ? What if we become immortals somehow ? If the reason why we practice the four virtues of Stoicism is because of "Memento Mori" then in this case, being immortal, wouldn't we stop practicing them then ? Thank You!"
Horizontal book shelves. How is that working out?
What an amazing conversation ruined by the word “right” 😂
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Right?