An evening with Joan Didion
Sunday
January 7, 2007
7 pm
Cullen Theater, Wortham Center, 501 Texas Avenue
Ms. Didion will NOT conduct a public book signing. Brazos Bookstore will sell a limited number of signed copies of The Year of Magical Thinking on the evening of the reading.
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About Didion: JOAN DIDION is one of America's most respected literary figures—a writer of "uncompromising imagination" (Elizabeth Hardwick) whose work "speak[s] directly to the larger human situation" (The New York Times). An award-winning essayist, novelist, and screenwriter, Didion has been sending fictional and nonfictional dispatches on the American political and cultural scene for more than 40 years.
Born in California and now living in New York City, Didion is the author of five novels, including Play It as It Lays and A Book of Common Prayer, and eight works of nonfiction, including Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album, and Political Fictions.
In her newest book, The Year of Magical Thinking, which won the 2005 National Book Award, she chronicles, with unsparing candor, her year of grief after the sudden death of her husband of 40 years, John Gregory Dunne, and the critical illness of their only child, Quintana. Robert Pinsky in The New York Times Book Review calls the memoir "an exact, candid, and penetrating account of personal terror and bereavement. . . sometimes quite funny because it dares to tell the truth." Gideon Lewis-Kraus in the Los Angeles Times Book Review writes, "We have come to admire and love Didion for her preternatural poise, unrivaled eye for absurdity and Orwellian distaste for cant. It is thus a difficult, moving and extraordinarily poignant experience to watch her direct such scrutiny inward." In The New York Review of Books, John Leonard opines, "I can't think of a book we need more than hers."