As a reader, I find it offputting to have the writer jumping in there to explain everything, unless I'm reading an instruction manual or dispatch from a country/situation I've barely heard of etc.
― dow, Tuesday, 28 June 2022 17:42 (one year ago) link
I'm not talking about leaving space in "hard journalism," that is. The harder it is the more I want to be told about it.
― dow, Tuesday, 28 June 2022 17:48 (one year ago) link
anticipation: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/arts/design/joan-didion-hammer-museum-hilton-als.html
― youn, Thursday, 6 October 2022 21:41 (one year ago) link
Who cares if she staged the photo in the article for a Williams Sonoma photo op? She tried to write.
― youn, Thursday, 6 October 2022 21:43 (one year ago) link
betrayal of journalism my ass---in all the things I've read, some of her later writing, she provided the context, and so do the better New Yorker writers, rather jump in there with commentary, lecture points, that Gopnik Thurman etc "polymath" ponderosa
― dow, Thursday, 6 October 2022 23:56 (one year ago) link
She did warn people not to forget she's in the room (as they tended to because she was so small and quiet, she said), because she's there to getcha (that was earlier though, I may never get back that far)
― dow, Thursday, 6 October 2022 23:58 (one year ago) link
LOA wrapping up the trilogy this fall:
https://www.loa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/9781598537871-185x300.jpg
I am excited to read the stage version of Magical Thinking
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Friday, 23 February 2024 17:58 (three months ago) link