Tag Archives: didion

Overdrive L.A.

Posted on October 22, 2015 by twotreatises

In 2013, as part of Pacific Standard Time, the Getty had an exhibition (and book) called Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future 1940-1990. Exhibition details and images are still up on the Getty website, including this video: Ed Ruscha’s photographs of … Continue reading →

Posted in art/architecture, los angeles, movies/photography | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off on Overdrive L.A.

Joan Didion @ Aloud 11/16/11

Posted on November 16, 2011 by twotreatises

in conversation with David Ulin @ The ex-Cathedral of St. Vibiana (now just Vibiana) UPDATE 11/18/11: watch (now you can check if I misquoted anything! and I can figure out what my various illegible notes said…) Notes: started with a … Continue reading →

Posted in history/memory, literature, los angeles | Tagged , | Comments Off on Joan Didion @ Aloud 11/16/11

The Last Thing He Wanted

Posted on December 31, 2009 by twotreatises

by Joan Didion “I said that while it was true that the telling of a life tended to falsify it, gave it a form it did not intrinsically possess, this was just a fact of writing things down, something we … Continue reading →

Posted in literature | Tagged | Comments Off on The Last Thing He Wanted

Democracy

Posted on May 28, 2009 by twotreatises

by Joan Didion my very quick goodreads review: forgoes any sense of narrative structure to be “meta” / self aware, but only fictionally. I liked the style, but I could definitely understand not liking it–it gets confusing and muddle-ly in … Continue reading →

Posted in literature | Tagged | Comments Off on Democracy

re-Play It As It Lays

Posted on January 28, 2009 by twotreatises

I recently re-watched Play It As It Lays. (I could do with re-reading the novel at some point.) It’s hard to articulate how I feel about it, but, of course, I’ll try. First, there’s the fact of Joan Didion. I … Continue reading →

Posted in literature, movies/photography | Tagged , , , , | 2 Comments