Precocity Be Damned

In a blog post on the Times website, Timothy Egan wrote yesterday about those who find success relatively late in life. At one time, he coveted the 'wunderkind', the young genius who produces brilliant work early on in their career, like F. Scott Fitzgerald or Vincent van Gogh. But now, perhaps through necessity, he finds… [more]

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Vanessa Redgrave Speaks About Personal Loss

Vanessa Redgrave, the Academy Award-winning actress, recently gave an interview to BBC Radio 4 in which she spoke about the death of three members of her immediate family in the last year and a half. In March of last year, Redgrave's daughter, the actress Natasha Richardson, died following a skiing accident. She was… [more]

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Norris Church Mailer Names “The Year of Magical Thinking” As One of Her Five Favorite Memoirs.

Norris Church Mailer, Norman Mailer's wife of 33 years, has named "The Year of Magical Thinking" as one of her five favorite memoirs of all time. Her list was compiled for The Wall Street Journal's "Five Best" series, where she writes: In "The Year of Magical Thinking," Joan Didion shows she is the stuff of which our… [more]

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Swell Phrase-Turner Is Not Your Average Housewife

The Awl has published some hate mail from the archives. When Didion wrote for Life magazine in 1969/70, her articles drew letters which editors banished to the "Hilarious/Crazy/Scary" file. Now, thanks to a caprice of the Internet, that file has been opened.… [more]

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