A Writer Afoot » joan didion http://www.barbarasamuel.com/blog Writing, reading, walking Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:29:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Radio essay online http://www.barbarasamuel.com/blog/2009/06/11/radio-essay-online/ http://www.barbarasamuel.com/blog/2009/06/11/radio-essay-online/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:59:49 +0000 Barbara Samuel http://www.barbarasamuel.com/blog/?p=617 I taped another radio essay last week.  It went live this morning and you can hear it here:

http://krccnews.org/rccnews/citizen-report-joan-i/2009/06/11/6111

]]> http://www.barbarasamuel.com/blog/2009/06/11/radio-essay-online/feed/ 0 Did Joan wash her hands at the same sink? http://www.barbarasamuel.com/blog/2009/02/02/did-joan-wash-her-hands-at-the-same-sink/ http://www.barbarasamuel.com/blog/2009/02/02/did-joan-wash-her-hands-at-the-same-sink/#comments Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:30:37 +0000 Barbara Samuel http://www.barbarasamuel.com/blog/?p=539 Joan Didion, the celebrated writer, went to Columbia Elementary School for awhile. The old building, made of red sandstone (as well as I can recollect), not the modern version that occupies the lot these days. I have been drunkenly reading her work, admiring the western cleanness, the spare and unsentimental way she captures the [...]]]> http://www.barbarasamuel.com/blog/2009/02/02/did-joan-wash-her-hands-at-the-same-sink/feed/ 4 Telling stories http://www.barbarasamuel.com/blog/2009/01/04/telling-stories/ http://www.barbarasamuel.com/blog/2009/01/04/telling-stories/#comments Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:17:57 +0000 Barbara Samuel http://www.barbarasamuel.com/blog/?p=526 “We tell ourselves stories in order to live,” writes Joan Didion in The White Album.   I was reading the book last night while I waited for my younger son to arrive home on snowy roads, reading it because I knew she would sweep me away from my worry and I could think about things [...]]]> http://www.barbarasamuel.com/blog/2009/01/04/telling-stories/feed/ 10