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On this , the third episode of my series on Joan Didion's "Blue Nights" and her diary "Notes To John" , I welcome special guest Joanne Davis Woods who is a longstanding fan of Joan Didion, including some first edition of Joan Didion in her book collection. More on this ongoing, multi episode series, here: In this multi part stream, we will explore the newly published private diary entries of Joan Didion concerning her relationship with her daughter Quintana forms the inspiration to revisit her final work Blue Nights, which concerns some of the same territory and above all, the philosophic question of grief.

Since the new Notes To Jon was never intended by Joan Didion to be seen this raises many ethical and aesthetic questions about the relationship between the raw material of any individual life and the constructed and hard won art objects that are finally released into the world, and the nature of matters of craft, exposure, transparence and the like more generally. We will discuss the uniqueness of Didion’s prose style and the effect her style has on we the readers. 

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