{"id":11840,"date":"2021-12-22T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11840"},"modified":"2021-12-25T16:14:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T23:14:01","slug":"joan-didion-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/12\/22\/joan-didion-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Joan Didion Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/2021\/12\/joan-didion-dead-87\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Vanity Fair<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Joan Didion, Literary Titan, Dies at 87<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>BY EMILY KIRKPATRICK<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/image-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11841\" width=\"480\" height=\"260\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Joan Didion, a resounding voice in American literature who insightfully captured the \u201960s and California through observant and beautiful language, died on Thursday at home in Manhattan. She was 87 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The famed writer\u2019s cause of death was Parkinson\u2019s disease, according to an email sent by her publisher, Paul Bogaards, an executive at Knopf, to The New York Times. Her friend, the writer Hilton Als, also confirmed the news on Instagram. He posted a black square with the simple caption: \u201cJoan Didion. 12.5.34\u201312.23.21.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Didion became renowned for her linguistic froideur, keen insights, and provocative yet elegant prose, writing fiction, nonfiction, and screenplays over the course of her lengthy career. But she saved her most personal subjects for last. Her acclaimed 2005\u00a0book,\u00a0<em>The Year of Magical Thinking,<\/em>\u00a0in which she grappled with the unexpected death of her husband, won the National Book Award for Nonfiction. She also attempted to come to terms with the death of her child in 2011\u2019s\u00a0<em>Blue Nights.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/2021\/12\/joan-didion-dead-87\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at VF<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Vanity Fair Joan Didion, Literary Titan, Dies at 87 BY EMILY KIRKPATRICK Joan Didion, a resounding voice in American literature who insightfully captured the \u201960s and California through observant and beautiful language, died on Thursday at home in Manhattan. She was 87 years old. The famed writer\u2019s cause of death was Parkinson\u2019s disease, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}