Joan Didion
Anyone ever heard of Joan Didion? I have been researching her life and writings and plan to write on her soon. I would like to contact her, also. She intrigues me because she is an early opponent to the Religious Right’s negative effect on the Republican party. She was a Goldwater and Reagan conservative, but is not a Bush supporter. I’ve collected some helpful links.
New York Review of Books on Joan Didion
Salon.com Interview from 1996
The Year of Magical Thinking
NPR Interview 9/30/05
But the main reason why I want to learn more about her can be found it the article, Joan Didion encounters evangelical Christianity by John Miller of Christianity Today (11/01/00). Mr. Miller writes:
She loves to use quoted phrases as specimens, holding them up with tweezers, as it were, for the delectation of her readers, who can be presumed to share her scorn and disgust at the words she quotes from Bush, who explains that “the main reason I quit [drinking] was because I accepted Jesus Christ as personal savior in 1986.” Amazing, isn’t it, that there are people who really talk like that?
Her grasp of what Christians believe is evidently rather shaky. “To accept Jesus Christ as personal savior is pretty much the heart and soul of evangelical conversion (or of being ‘born again,’ which both Governor Bush and Vice President Gore claim to be),”
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