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She has what writers like to describe as a hint of sadness around her mouth and is the sort of woman whose family, centuries past, would find after her death a journal of poems that no one knew she’d been writing her whole life, or a perfumed packet of fading letters from an ill-fated love who’d been dead for decades.
Dann McDorman • West Heart Kill: A novel
She took the opportunity to rein in what must have seemed syntactic and figural excesses in the work. In a passage about the invalid’s attitude to poetry, the 1930 version state
Literary Hub • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf

ou can hear in the delaying rhythms of the opening sentence the influence of Marcel Proust and the digressive, paid-by-the-word style of Thomas De Quincey, whose essays Woolf had lately looked into for the first time
Literary Hub • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf

### Joan Didion
- Best Known Work:
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968) – A seminal collection of essays capturing the spirit of the 1960s, particularly in California.
- The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) – A powerful memoir about grief and the death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne.
- Underrated/Underdiscovered Work:
- Play It As It Lays (1970) – A
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