She was always such a kvetch.
I hope she has found peace at last.
She was almost invariably pictured with a cigarette in her hand. No idea if it was mainly a prop or she really was a 5-pack/day smoker, but if the latter, it’s kind of amazing that she made 87. R.I.P.
I’ve heard of ‘Slouching toward Bethlehem’ but never had a chance to read it. RIP.
In her book SALVADOR, she said she stayed at the (four star Weston hotel) Camino Real because it was the only safe place to stay. Yet she poked fun at upper middle class Salvadoran women shopping across the street with “children and maids in tow.” Her little travel log was filled with errors about El Salvador but pushed the usual Leftist points and slandered the Rightists. She was such a waste of space.
Legendary? LOL!
For being so famous, I’ve never heard of her.
A legend of whom I’ve never heard.
never read anything by her.
Wow. Well, Godspeed Joan. She wrote some brilliant things early on- I think she lurched left in later years. Talebted writer, regardless.
She also critiqued the way politics was reported by American journalists, writing in her 1988 essay “Insider Baseball” that members of the media were “a self-created and self-referring class, a new kind of managerial elite” that “tend to speak of the world not necessarily as it is but as they want people out there to believe it is.”Forward-thinking.
RIP.