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This blog reports on Joan Didion’s recent appearance at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The blog’s not particularly well-written—the title is “Joan Didion Discourses at the Brooklyn Book Festival” and includes the phrase “The choir had been preached too”—but anything involving Joan Didion is interesting.

Here’s a bit:

…she focused on what has been said by all the pundits and television talking heads about Palin: she has a great “story.” McCain, the war hero, has a great “story.” It is a tactic used, she asserted, to “downplay their capacity for trouble.” Condoleezza Rice had a great “story.” Hearkening back to the 2005 confirmation hearings to install her as secretary of state, she said how at the time everyone noted that Rice had great success as provost of Stanford. “It was as if everyone on the Fox News Terror Alert Team had come off the provost beat.”

In conclusion: Hooray for Joan Didion!