Thank you for these updates. I see the new book about Joan Didion is getting good reviews. I only finished reading The White Album a couple of weeks ago and really enjoyed it. So I might venture towards this new publication. I have seen very good reviews for Hunchback in different places. I am currently reading Tommy Orange's Wandering Star. I really like his writing and have learned a lot about native American history and culture, in an accessible way through his books. Next to be read on my list is Tessa Hadley's The Part.
Thanks for sharing the gen x career meltdown piece. I’m turning 50 this year and a job that I thought would take me through to retirement is changing drastically and I don’t think I’ll keep up. Also as things change, companies restructure & redundancies happen. This is happening so often now. It’s scary because to change to any other career wouldn’t provide the equivalent salary and the cost of everything in my life as it is now (kids, mortgage, rising costs of everything! etc) means that’s not an option. However I’m guessing a 3rd redundancy will probably come my way anyway sooner or later.
Love this, as always, thanks Sam. I've just read The New Yorker extracts of Joan Didion's diaries and I'm unsure how I feel about it, I think you might have said the same. The idea of looking in someone's diary feels deeply intrusive, but then the way she has written them almost makes them ready to be consumed by another (in this case John as they were written to him). But I can't say that it wasn't fascinating and peeling back another layer of a person I greatly admire. Oh god, what to think!? I'm conflicted.
The Anatomy of a Marriage piece is such a lovely companion to your essay about your wedding anniversary ❤️ thank you for sharing it.
Thank you for these updates. I see the new book about Joan Didion is getting good reviews. I only finished reading The White Album a couple of weeks ago and really enjoyed it. So I might venture towards this new publication. I have seen very good reviews for Hunchback in different places. I am currently reading Tommy Orange's Wandering Star. I really like his writing and have learned a lot about native American history and culture, in an accessible way through his books. Next to be read on my list is Tessa Hadley's The Part.
I mean The Party!
Thanks for sharing the gen x career meltdown piece. I’m turning 50 this year and a job that I thought would take me through to retirement is changing drastically and I don’t think I’ll keep up. Also as things change, companies restructure & redundancies happen. This is happening so often now. It’s scary because to change to any other career wouldn’t provide the equivalent salary and the cost of everything in my life as it is now (kids, mortgage, rising costs of everything! etc) means that’s not an option. However I’m guessing a 3rd redundancy will probably come my way anyway sooner or later.
I’m so sorry. So many of us are in this situation. Suddenly the industries - the jobs - that we’ve devoted our lives to - just gone.
I started Dying for Sex yesterday and it was all I could do not to inhale the whole thing.
Thank you for the lovely mention!
I'm honoured to be mentioned, thank you!
Love this, as always, thanks Sam. I've just read The New Yorker extracts of Joan Didion's diaries and I'm unsure how I feel about it, I think you might have said the same. The idea of looking in someone's diary feels deeply intrusive, but then the way she has written them almost makes them ready to be consumed by another (in this case John as they were written to him). But I can't say that it wasn't fascinating and peeling back another layer of a person I greatly admire. Oh god, what to think!? I'm conflicted.