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.

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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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We had an absolute blast Saturday at our most recent aesthetic miniseries livestream! Thanks to our replay crew and please share it far and wide with us!We are hoping to reach 500 subscribers by Christmas so thank you for being part of our show- the best part !

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In this, the fourth episode of our miniseries for All About Aesthetics on Isiah Berlin's theory of Romanticism and its great effects, I discuss the many philosophic stances concerning individual had collective human conduct. We discuss the concepts of Sincerity and Authenticity, largely inventions of the Romantic revolution. Denis Diderot and Jean Jacques Rousseau's relationship and books are read as metaphors for opposing views.

The great 20th century philosopher Bernard Williams will be a guide of sorts to these discussions - the implications of which remain as powerful today, four centuries later.

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We are delighted you all joined us for some jazz to ring in fall and wave goodbye to summer!

Enjoy our jazz trio on replay, anytime!

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