The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (Knopf, 227 pages, $23.95) “Milk it, but no excessive melodramatics,” John Gregory Dunne tells us he wrote to himself in 1987, shortly after his doctors declared him a candidate for a “catastrophic cardiac event.” In his 1989 memoir, Harp, he reports that he also drafted a […]
Linda Hall
Linda Hall is an assistant professor of English at Skidmore College.