[DEATHWATCH] Tilting Towards Burial

[Debbie Speer]

Unconfirmed reports (albeit from sources who should know) say Joan Didion has died. Bad end of year for the literary world.

-Deb
…not dead yet

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[Paul Pietromonaco]

New York Times is reporting it:

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/23/books/joan-didion-dead.html

 

Cheers,

Paul

 

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[KAREN KANTER]

Damn. Someone needs to put Marge Piercy in a protective bubble. It’s not looking good for influential women writers.

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[Debbie Speer]

Meant to type Slouching Toward Burial but yeah the confirmations are pouring in. Anne Rice, Eve Babitz and now Joan Didion do make a hat trick for women in letters.

-Deb

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> On Dec 23, 2021, at 9:16 AM, 'KAREN KANTER' via World News Now Discussion List <wn...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
> Damn. Someone needs to put Marge Piercy in a protective bubble. It’s not looking good for influential women writers.

> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wnndl/9833294F-C293-4327-A25C-87BD9A8312EB%40aol.com.

[danny burstein]

On Thu, 23 Dec 2021, Debbie Speer wrote:

> Meant to type Slouching Toward Burial but yeah the confirmations are
> pouring in. Anne Rice, Eve Babitz and now Joan Didion do make a hat
> trick for women in letters.

Meanwhile, we've also just gotten word
from US Dep't of Justice that Theodore
John "Unabomer" Kaczynski [a] has been
moved from Colorado Supermax to the
Fed Almost Dead Med facility

[a] remember to always follow the Three Name Rule.