![]() ![]() ![]() I've been away for a bit, but now I'm back. ![]() If you find you just can't get enough Dirda today, come back at 2 for my regular weekly discussion of books in general. For the next hour I'll field questions about the essays, bounce ideas back to you, and we'll see what happens. Michael Dirda: Welcome to The Washington Post Book World's online book discussion of Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem, that distinguished journalist/cultural essayist's first and still most famous collection. He thinks the greatest novel of all time is either Murasaki Shikubu's "The Tale of Genji" or Proust's "A la recherche du temps perdu." In a just world he would own Watteau's painting "The Embarkation for Cythera."Įditor's Note: moderators retain editorial control over Live Online discussions and choose the most relevant questions for guests and hosts guests and hosts can decline to answer questions. Eliot, Nabokov, John Dickson Carr, Joseph Mitchell and Jack Vance. His favorite writers are Stendhal, Chekhov, Jane Austen, Evelyn Waugh, T.S. Washington Post Book World Senior Editor Michael Dirda presented the discussion on this month's selection, 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' by Joan Didion.ĭirda joined The Post in 1978, having grown up in the working-class steel town of Lorain, Ohio and graduated with highest honors in English from Oberlin College. ![]() Welcome to the online meeting of The Washington Post Book Club, a monthly program presented by the editors and writers of Washington Post Book World.
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