Teachout: Didion’s Grist For The Literary Mill

Terry Teachout has problems with the Broadway theatre adaptation of Joan Didion’s “The Year of Magical Thinking.” “All the familiar features of her style, hardened into slick, self-regarding mannerism after years of constant use, were locked into place and running smoothly, and I felt as though I were watching a piece of performance art, or reading a cover story in People: Joan Didion on Grief. Is this unfair? Probably.”