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Full-program video with downloadable audio option at Poetry Center Digital Archive: diva.sfsu.edu/...
"...Nonfiction forces me into reportorial situations where very often I’m exposed to things that turn up later in fiction.” Joan Didion responds to a question from the audience, after reading from A Book of Common Prayer, for The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University. Asked about the presence of joy in her work, she objects to the portrayal of her work as depressing, and concludes by stating: “This book seems to me to be full of joy. It’s just not happy, but it does have joy.”
This first-ever public reading by Didion takes place February 23, 1977, in the César Chavez Student Center at SF State. The full-program video includes Didion reading all of part One, eleven chapters, of her new novel, then entertaining questions on her writing from the audience for an additional 20 minutes.
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