tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1773382509071881565.post4061796232437007168..comments2023-10-28T06:37:45.669-07:00Comments on Choices: My thoughts about Didion's Blue Nights - probably just sour grapes?madeline40http://www.blogger.com/profile/06549058012582815995noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1773382509071881565.post-17776333620189805072012-03-09T18:35:39.066-08:002012-03-09T18:35:39.066-08:00Well, of course she got the publicity because of w...Well, of course she got the publicity because of who she is. I love reading her essays of the Sixties, collected in a small paperback I still have called Slouching Toward Bethlehem (1968). The essays profoundly move me because I lived through this time, the 60s and 70s, with my "gay" ex-husband. <br /><br />She's a marvelous writer. Like you, I was spellbound by The Year of Magical Thinking. But I haven's read Blue Nights, so thanks for warning me! <br /><br />Of course she established her reputation way back, so now in the aftermath of the zapped economy, with the book industry changing so drastically - well, it's hard for authors like us to get "out there." I truly empathize and sympathize with the sour grapes feeling!<br /><a href="http://annbestblog.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow"><i>Ann Best, Author of In the Mirror & Other Memoirs</i></a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com