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Apr 22, 2020
Carlton
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A wonderful style, a cool voice, but one you trust to tell it how it is, whatever it is.
Over thirty years ago I read George Orwell’s non-fiction, his journalism, his books, his essays and even his letters. He would write about saucy seaside postcards or roses from Woolworths, and it didn’t matter that you had had no interest in the subject matter, but Orwell made the subject real in his writing.
Didion does that, although the voice is entirely different.
Well worth the time.
We tell ourselves stori ...more
Over thirty years ago I read George Orwell’s non-fiction, his journalism, his books, his essays and even his letters. He would write about saucy seaside postcards or roses from Woolworths, and it didn’t matter that you had had no interest in the subject matter, but Orwell made the subject real in his writing.
Didion does that, although the voice is entirely different.
Well worth the time.
We tell ourselves stori ...more
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