Carribean Fragoza, Lynell George, Ayad Akhtar, Steph Cha and other writers reflect on the indelible impact of Joan Didion, who died Thursday at 87.
, sees her signature melding of personal and collective stories as a key part of her legacy.
Inspired by her elegant, restrained and electric style, many tried to emulate her sharp descriptions of time and place but, as Mary Rasenberger, CEO of thehave certainly tried. “That’s a method that you can use to your heart’s content without feeling like you’re going to steal something because it’s just a technique,” said Cha. She also noted that translating experience into its most communicable essence will always be specific and unique to the writer.“I thought it was a brilliant way to write about L.A., because L.A. is so hard to piece stories in,” he said.
She vividly remembered poring over a Xeroxed copy of the 1966 essay “Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream” as a new staff writer at L.A. Weekly in her mid-20s, sitting with another Weekly writer who had taught the essay in a college course.
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