Thoughts on Joan Didion? Is her stuff worth reading? Where

>>9935168
Just read Palahniuk.

>>9935214

Literally what

>>9935168

Didion is fantastic and, to me, underappreciated. She had an obvious influence on BEE (particularly with the fantastic and minimal Play It As It Lays). Her non-fiction is superb, too: I liked Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album and then after those you can go to The Year of Magical Thinking

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The two characteristics that really distinguish Didion are her wit and her uncanny observation. She writes concise, beautiful non-fiction, and perspicacious fiction (though I personally far prefer the former). Anon already mentioned Sloudhing Toward Bethlehem. If that doesn't get you into her, I would not recommend continuing. If you enjoy StB, give After Henry a go. That is her best essay collection, in my opinion. If you want to read some of her essays standalone in order to sample her writing and determine if you want to continue, "On Keeping a Journal", "On Self-Respect", "Where I Was From" (a reflection on growing up in and being shaped by California), and "In The Realm of the Fisher King" (a takedown of the Reagan administration) are great pieces with which to begin.

For her fiction, "Run, River" is as good as any.

Happy reading.

>>9935168
Slouching Towards Bethlehem was a great collection of essays

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>female writer

The essays are all top notch, start with Slouching. Her fiction is amateurish.

>>9935168
>asks an anime image board whether an author's work is "worth reading" instead of coming to own conclusions by oneself
Jesus. This forum is full of slightly evolved sheeple masquerading as enlightened intellectuals.

She is a goddess. Start with slouching towards Bethlehem.

>>9935460
Second (first?) wave "feminists" (those whom now are above 60) are fucking great.
Paglia's post 2000 stuff is great too.

>>9936897
wew