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Opinion | Wokeness Is Dying. We Might Miss It.
  + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( Michelle Goldberg | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
There is much about that febrile moment worth satirizing, including the white-lady struggle sessions inspired by the risible Robin DiAngelo and the inevitable implosion of Seattle’s anarchist Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. Bowles dissects both in the book’s best sections. “At various points, my fellow reporters at major news organizations told me roads and birds are racist,” she writes. Exercise is super racist.” Even allowing for 2020’s great flood of social-justice click bait, these are misleading and reductive caricatures. It’s hardly revisionist history, for example, to point out that Interstates were tools of racial segregation.
Persons: Nellie Bowles, George Floyd, Donald Trump’s, , , Robin DiAngelo, Bowles dissects, Tom Wolfe’s “, Joan Didion’s “, It’s Organizations: New York Times, Capitol, Capitol Hill Autonomous Locations: Capitol Hill, Bethlehem
The Best Books About California
  + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Soumya Karlamangla | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Looking for your next absorbing read? Today I’m updating our California Reading List, a project of this newsletter that’s intended to guide anyone looking to learn more about the Golden State through adeptly written prose. Readers have sent in hundreds of wonderful recommendations, and I’ve been sorting through them for weeks. Please keep emailing your suggestions to CAtoday@nytimes.com, and include your full name and the community where you live. (If you have recommendations for the best local spots to read, send those, too.)
Persons: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston’s, Carey, Octavia Butler’s unsettlingly, Joan Didion, , Joan Didion’s ‘, Jim Morrison, Charles Manson, , Christine Tse Kuecherer Organizations: Reading, Golden State Locations: Golden, “ California, Burbank
Klein was trapped inside a hall of mirrors, and she was trying to find a way out. Before writing about her doppelgänger, Klein felt stuck. Klein told her what she was going through: “I used to fill notebooks, you know, everywhere I went. As much as Klein recoiled at what Wolf was saying, she also felt the sting of recognition. (In an email, Wolf declined to comment on “Doppelganger,” explaining that she hadn’t yet read the book, but said that some of her tweets “were poorly worded and were deleted.”)
Persons: Klein, Hurricane, , Biden, V, Eve Ensler, Harriet Clark, ” Clark, Joan Didion’s “, Covid, , hadn’t, ” Klein, Philip Roth, Wolf, tweeting, Naomi, Tucker Carlson, nodded Organizations: Rutgers University Locations: New Jersey, British Columbia
THE DEADLINE: Essays, by Jill LeporeIn 1636, at the height of the Dutch economic hysteria known as Tulipomania, John Harvard helped found the first college of the American colonies. It’s a good thing I do not have Jill Lepore’s job. The phrase “historical framework” is insufficient when it comes to Lepore, who also provides the picture and the glass. Through these figures Lepore covers American consumerism, literary biography, journalism, intellectual property law and other cultural curiosities. But it’s her inclinations toward misfits and old narratives we have taken for granted that make “The Deadline” glow.
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Warren Hoge, a former correspondent for The New York Times who covered civil wars in Latin America, the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, and numerous global crises before rising to the top ranks of the paper’s newsroom leadership, died on Wednesday at his home in Manhattan. His wife, Olivia Hoge, said the cause was pancreatic cancer, which was diagnosed early last year. In a 32-year Times career, Mr. Hoge (pronounced hoag), was a versatile reporter and a vivid writer. Covering political turmoil and guerrilla warfare in South and Central America from 1979 to 1983, Mr. Hoge wrote hundreds of articles on the civil wars that had ebbed and flowed in red tides for years in Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador. “No cadaver is ever pleasant to look upon,” Mr. Hoge wrote in 1983, in a laudatory review of Joan Didion’s recent book, “Salvador.”
Persons: Warren Hoge, Diana , Princess of Wales, Olivia Hoge, Hoge, hoag, Pope John Paul II, ” Mr, Joan Didion’s, , Organizations: The New York Times, Central America, Mr Locations: Latin America, Manhattan, Rio de Janeiro, South, Central, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, “ Salvador
But many of the specific stories she alludes to in the essay have remained maddeningly opaque. Precisely what prompted her physical breakdown, as well as her terse reference to Kennedy’s funeral, have long been the subject of speculation for Didionologists. “What was she doing at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel during Robert Kennedy’s funeral?” Tracy Daugherty wrote in “The Last Love Song,” his 2015 biography of Ms. Didion. What is the point of teasing us with the hotel if not to deliberately disorient the reader?”Now we finally know the answer. (A transcript, processed in 2019, can also be found in the New York City Public Library’s collection of Ms. Stein’s papers.)
Persons: There’s, Joan Didion’s, Robert Kennedy’s, , Didion, , Didion’s, , ” Tracy Daugherty, John Gregory Dunne, Jean Stein, Robert Kennedy, John F Organizations: Hawaiian Hotel, Hawaiian, Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, New York Locations: Honolulu,
Emma Cline’s Latest Heroine Is a Call Girl on the Run
  + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Liska Jacobs | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
THE GUEST, by Emma ClineAll is not as it seems in Emma Cline’s latest novel, “The Guest,” a deceptively simple story about a young woman kicked out of her rich lover’s Long Island beach house in the final days of summer after embarrassing him at a party. Convinced that her breakup is only temporary, Alex plans to saunter back into Simon’s life at a Labor Day party he is hosting at the end of the week. All she has to do is wait out five days until then. Don’t leave toothpaste in the sink basin.” Be appealing, but also be invisible. Alex knows she is replaceable, “a sort of inert piece of social furniture — only her presence was required, the general size and shape of a young woman.”
Joan Didion’s Life in Objects
  + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Anna Kodé | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +15 min
(Ms. Didion’s death was the result of complications from Parkinson’s disease.) Ms. Didion’s stylish Corvette Stingray isn’t in the sale, but the photos that made it famous are. Quintana eventually pulled through, but died in 2005 at 39, a few months before Ms. Didion’s 2005 book, “The Year of Magical Thinking,” was published. In the book, Ms. Didion wrote about the heartbreak and challenges of that era of her life: “I learned to find equal meaning in the repeated rituals of domestic life. Following Ms. Didion’s passing, Ms. Smith, an artist and singer known as the “godmother of punk,” posted a tribute on Instagram, articulating what many felt.
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