In The Year of Magical Thinking, the 2005 best-seller, Joan Didion dissected the trauma of losing her husband, John Gregory Dunne. With Blue Nights, to be published in November by Knopf, she agonizingly explores the heavier blow that followed: the death of their daughter, Quintana Roo.
Christopher Hitchens contemplates a tragic achievement.
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/10/joan-didion-201110
Christopher Hitchens (1949 - 2011) was an Anglo-American author and journalist. His books made him a prominent public intellectual and a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits. He was a columnist and literary critic at Vanity Fair, Slate, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry and a variety of other media outlets. He was named one of the world's "Top 100 Public Intellectuals" by Foreign Policy and Britain's Prospect.

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V.F. Portrait: Joan Didion
September 17, 2011Posted by Tom at 08:20
Labels: 2011, Christopher Hitchens, Joan Didion, Vanity Fair
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Is the piece linked on VF the entire article or just a teaser? Seems way too short...
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