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Designated Mourner.(The Year of Magical Thinking)(Theater review)
David Mamet, in his new volume of polemical mischief, "Bambi vs. Godzilla," coins the term "affliction drama" for the genre of entertainment that "enlists the human capacity for sympathy and asks the sympathetic to weep." Mamet calls this a "hijacking of the dramatic transaction," the theatrical equivalent of "bringing a gun to a knife fight." In such scenarios, human suffering trumps both dramaturgy and discourse. The intellectual blackmail implicit in these plays, Mamet argues, is: Do you appreciate this play, or do you hate blacks, the bereaved, the autistic? The latest example of this sort of theatrical buttonholing is "The Year of Magical Thinking" (directed by David ...
- The still point of the turning world: Joan Didion and the opposite of...
- Magazine article from: Harper's Magazine Szalai, Jennifer November 1, 2005 700+ words
...in this essay: The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion. Alfred A. Knopf, 2005...than four decades now, Joan Didion has managed to imbue her work...settled in the Sacramento Valley, Didion was inculcated with memories...
- Didion, Joan: The Year of Magical Thinking.(Brief article)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Biography Fraser, Marian Botsford January 1, 2006 700+ words
Didion, Joan. The Year of Magical Thinking. Joan Didion. New York: Knopf, 2005. 227 pp. $33.95. A memoir of the time immediately following the death of Didion's husband and writing partner, John Gregory Dunne...
- A writer's journey through grief; Joan Didion explores the astonishing...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor October 18, 2005 700+ words
...we reach it," Joan Didion tells us in The Year of Magical Thinking, nominated last week...Book Award finalist. Didion very unexpectedly reached...editor. The Year of Magical Thinking By Joan Didion Knopf 240 pp., $23...
- Death Becomes Her; Vanessa Redgrave works magic in Didion's mournful...
- Magazine article from: Newsweek McGuigan, Cathleen March 26, 2007 700+ words
...talk, with writer Joan Didion, about "The Year of Magical Thinking," the upcoming one-woman Broadway show that Didion adapted from her 2005...thread in "The Year of Magical Thinking," Didion's exploration of mourning...
- Didion's Annus Horribilis: How Grief Looks on the Page.(Culture)
- Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) October 10, 2005 700+ words
...Magazine: a skeletal Joan Didion showing us up close...lesson of The Year of Magical Thinking: She's made herself...course: This is Joan Didion (b. 1934), a mind...fracturing of The Year of Magical Thinking is to reproduce a mourner...to read about Ms. Didion's marriage, but...
- Alone With Her Words; Joan Didion's spare, stunning memoir of loss and grief.
- Magazine article from: Newsweek October 10, 2005 700+ words
...the first words Joan Didion wrote after the death...memoir "The Year of Magical Thinking." Not many writers use words with Didion's beautiful exactitude...shoes?" So begins the magical thinking. Didion's intricate narrative...
- Reading Joan Didion.(The Pop Lit Book Club)(Brief article)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News November 1, 2009 700+ words
...essayist, and journalist Joan Didion. Introductory chapters summarize...craft and themes in six of Didion's works: Run River, Slouching...and 2006's The Year of Magical Thinking. Remaining chapters discuss Didion's work as it treats modern...
- Joan Didion Named Winner of Los Angeles Times Kirsch Award.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire March 10, 2006 700+ words
...10 /PRNewswire/ -- Joan Didion has been named the winner...founded the Book Prizes. Didion is renowned as a journalist...California at Berkeley, much of Didion's writing draws from her...recent book, The Year of Magical Thinking. Presenting the 2005 Los...
