It's hard to convey to the present generation what literary figures like Didion, who defined a time and a literary style, once meant.
We just don't have such people in our culture anymore. The very role itself, much less the talent, just doesn't exist.
We just don't have such people in our culture anymore. The very role itself, much less the talent, just doesn't exist.
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1474061807258066947
Didion penned the best portrait of the wild 1980s Miami of my childhood, and the scheming and imperious Cuban exiles who populated it.
Told by a wide-eyed New Yorker, of course, but still....a snapshot of a budding metropolis and its febrile origins.
amazon.com/Miami-Joan-Did…
Told by a wide-eyed New Yorker, of course, but still....a snapshot of a budding metropolis and its febrile origins.
amazon.com/Miami-Joan-Did…
'Miami' opens at Woodlawn Park Cemetery, where many a generation of Cuban exile, victims of volatile politics, were laid to rest instead of the island that obsessed them.
(My family's plot is a stone's throw from the lapidary flags described there.)
(My family's plot is a stone's throw from the lapidary flags described there.)
Such a figure would be impossible now. Were a New York writer to venture to Miami now it would be 'LatinX' this and that, and a bunch of parochial Anglo projection about a world they couldn't understand for being completely outside their narrow worldview.
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