Joan Didion was remembered as an inspiring and fearless writer and as a valued, exacting and sometimes eccentric friend.
Joan Didion’s precision with words extended even to ones she would never live to hear, such as those used during a small, private service this spring at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
“She left very clear directions about what she wanted to happen at that service,” the Very Rev. Patrick Malloy said Wednesday night, at the start of a memorial tribute at the cathedral. “She wanted it to be very brief, and she specified the texts she wanted us to use, all from the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer, which is what you’d expect from an Episcopalian who wrote a book called ‘A Book of Common Prayer.
The texts she chose were “remarkably dour,” Malloy went on to explain, and they were not from the contemporary edition of the Book of Common Prayer but from an older, more ornate version.
Hundreds were presented with programs and laminated hand fans as they entered the cathedral on a summer-ish late afternoon — the first day of autumn — where the scale of the building was too vast for the expense of air-conditioning. Carl Bernstein, Donna Tartt and Fran Lebowitz were among those attending, along with relatives, friends and editors and other colleagues from the New Yorker and her last publishing house, Penguin Random House.
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