A Lecture on Joan Didion's "Slouching Towards Bethlehem"

[@emilybazeddi1914]

I've listened to this multiple times. This is fantastic and never gets old. You provide valuable insight.

[@Ben-mr6rt]

Appreciate this! Just finished Slouching Towards Bethlehem and this provides some great context

[@aleo126100]

Great lecture! Helped to clear up a lot of questions I had regarding Didion’s style, and the motif of innocence in the book. Looking forward to tuning in to more of your lectures!

[@johnpistelli9092]

Thank you!

[@eskybakzu712]

The book might take its title from the essay but the essay takes its title from a Yeats poem, The Second Coming

[@mattyoung61]

such a honest description! loved the lecture!

[@Bob-di8cz]

I love the insight on how the smaller silent generation and Gen X produced the greatest writers.

[@richardrosebealprestonjohn3144]

Thank you!

[@Bob-di8cz]

I would say it had to do with the fact that both of those generations were more conservative and thus more realistic. I think there realistic look at the world helps make their writing much more meaningful.

[@lo-fidevil2950]

She described the left accurately. That’s why she’s marginalized in Norton. It’s a pretty straightforward unpersoning for thoughtcrime. Also, admiring John Wayne probably didn’t help.

[@Plushiecandie]

The part with the girl in blackface rly reminds me of pro palestine protests nowadays. White radicals talking over ppl who actually hve experience with bigotry, verses those who cosplay it.

[@jt2465]

Can tell more about who you are and what you do? Enjoying. Thanks

[@WiseGuyGene]

She was "skeptical" of The Movement? She was withering.

[@jaientenduunevoix726]

You sound like Terrence McKenna

[@jt2465]

Didion passed. Do u have more video about her? Her legacy?

[@johnpistelli9092]

Not in video format, but if you search her name at johnpistelli.com, you'll find several essays about her other works.

[@jt2465]

@@johnpistelli9092 I mean your work on her work

[@jt2465]

@@johnpistelli9092 oh wow. Pardon me. Just saw what you meant. The next day after she died, you wouldn't believe this: someone gifted me the novel: The Last Thing He Wanted!