{"id":30972,"date":"2017-11-01T17:43:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T00:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=30972"},"modified":"2021-12-24T17:42:38","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T00:42:38","slug":"the-center-will-not-hold-a-documentary-of-joan-didion-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2017\/11\/01\/the-center-will-not-hold-a-documentary-of-joan-didion-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"The Center Will Not Hold &#8211; a Documentary of Joan Didion &#8211; 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1aDidionJillKrentz-e1509579608177.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1aDidionJillKrentz-e1509579608177.jpg\" alt=\"EPSON scanner image\" width=\"600\" height=\"433\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30973\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nJoan Didion Documentary shows <a href=\" https:\/\/electricliterature.com\/the-new-joan-didion-documentary-shows-the-warmer-side-of-a-cool-icon-271b3e5704b9\">the warmer side of a cool Icon <\/a><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><> <> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1aadidion2-e1509579663815.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1aadidion2-e1509579663815.jpg\" alt=\"1aadidion2\" width=\"500\" height=\"732\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30974\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/cultural-comment\/the-most-revealing-moment-in-the-new-joan-didion-documentary\">New Yorker &#8211; <\/a><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/fashion-runway-joan-didion-style-netflix-the-center-will-not-hold\">The Center will not hold <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1aaDALeibovitz-e1509579757573.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1aaDALeibovitz-e1509579757573.jpg\" alt=\"1aaDALeibovitz\" width=\"600\" height=\"597\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30976\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nPhoto by Annie Leibovitz<\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p>(See a full film on youtube)<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Play It As It Lays (1972) Full Movie\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UfRkecpJ9Ew?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n(Directed by Frank Perry, starring Tuesday Weld and Anthny Perkins, Play as it lays, written by Joan Didion) <\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p>Joan Didion wrote<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2005\/12\/05\/didion-kureishi\/\"> the White Album (previous post) <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe tell ourselves stories in order to live\u201d is the first sentence of this collection of essays written by Joan Didion.<br \/>\n\u201cThe White Album\u201d includes her essays on Doris Lessing and Georgia O\u2019Keefe.<br \/>\n    \u201cI WILL BE HER WITNESS.<br \/>\n    That would translate sere su testigo, and will not appear in your travelers\u2019 phrasebook because it is not a useful phrase for the prudent traveler.\u2019 Another beginning sentences from her novel \u201cA Book of Common Prayer\u201d. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Having lost her loved ones and having won an award for the brave book<br \/>\nJoan is still writing.<\/p>\n<p>Joan shares a birthday with other funny writers and personalities,<br \/>\nCalvin Trillin, Margaret Cho and Hanif Kureishi.<\/p>\n<p>Joan is the wise seer with a fragile exterior and migraine headaches.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/3439\/joan-didion-the-art-of-fiction-no-71-joan-didion\">Paris Review interview<\/a><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p>Joan Didian recommended <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2012\/09\/28\/another-sky\/\">Another Sky &#8211; <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/anothersky.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/anothersky.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"anothersky\" width=\"490\" height=\"275\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/anothersky.jpg 490w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/anothersky-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joan Didion Documentary shows the warmer side of a cool Icon New Yorker &#8211; The Center will not hold Photo by Annie Leibovitz (See a full film on youtube) (Directed by Frank Perry, starring Tuesday Weld and Anthny Perkins, Play as it lays, written by Joan Didion) Joan Didion wrote the White Album (previous post) &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2017\/11\/01\/the-center-will-not-hold-a-documentary-of-joan-didion-2017\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Center Will Not Hold &#8211; a Documentary of Joan Didion &#8211; 2017&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,130,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-documentary","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}