Tag: The Year of Magical Thinking

  • Why I Won’t Read Joan Didion’s “Blue Nights”

    I was late to the party when it came to reading Joan Didion. For years I had the vague sensation that Didion wasn’t for me. It was one of those unapologetic prejudices people have for certain writers, a prejudice that ended when I picked up a copy of The Year of Magical Thinking. It was…