![]() My favorite essays were those in the “Personals” section, including “On Keeping a Notebook,” “On Self-Respect,” and “On Morality.” But I also really loved the final essay, which is called “Goodbye to All That” and is about how she fell in and then out of New York City in her 20s. There were some essays I loved and others that felt like they flew in one side of my brain and out the other, and then of course her incredible sentences, images, and structure throughout. The course was set up that way on purpose, because next we’re reading The Year of Magical Thinking, and the teacher wanted us to be able to admire the juxtaposition of her early work and her later work. ![]() This was my third Joan Didion, which I read along with a formal reading group with the Center for Fiction, but it’s Didion’s first published book. ![]() Whether or not we sleep in it depends, of course, on whether or not we respect ourselves.” “However long we postpone it, we eventually lie down alone in that notoriously uncomfortable bed, the one we make ourselves. ![]()
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