Season 7: “Book Lunch”Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne’s Vegas, Episode 4- the final chapter( for now)

In this, the final episode for our miniseries on Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne I feature Dunne's (very) 1970s book Vegas and as always, though closer reading, reflect onhow the differences in prose styles create specific and unique meanings and, furthermore, these styles interact with entire eras. An era may favor one style over another, becoming a dominant one, even make the existence of a style possible or not.

More on this special, multi part series, here:

In this multi part stream, we will explore the newly published private diary entries of Joan Didion concerning her relationship with her daughter Quintana forms the inspiration to revisit her final work Blue Nights, which concerns some of the same territory and above all, the philosophic question of grief. Since the new Notes To Jon was never intended by Joan Didion to be seen this raises many ethical and aesthetic questions about the relationship between the raw material of any individual life and the constructed and hard won art objects that are finally released into the world, and the nature of matters of craft, exposure, transparence and the like more generally.

We will discuss the uniqueness of Didion’s prose style and the effect her style has on we the readers.

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