The texts she chose were "remarkably dour," Malloy went on to explain, and they were not from the contemporary edition of the Book of Common Prayer, but from an older, more ornate printing. "She and Joan would share a smoke together and talk about the novels they were reading," he said. Didion's longtime friend and fellow author Susanna Moore distilled decades of conversation into a few of Didion's aphorisms: "Evil is the absence of seriousness." "Without raising the issue she (Joan Didion) reached out and stroked my head," Traylor recalled. The show began with reflections on the Book of Common Prayer, and ended in secular scripture, Patti Smith performing Bob Dylan's "Chimes of Freedom."

Source: Los Angeles Times September 22, 2022 03:22 UTC