An Innocent Abroad: Joan Didion’s Midlife Crisis
Because of her failure to see beyond the world that raised her, Didion almost wasted two decades of literary production.
Scott Bradfield is a novelist, short story writer, and critic who currently lives in London and San Luis Obispo. A retired professor of English at the University of Connecticut, his books include The History of Luminous Motion (1989), Animal Planet (1995), The People Who Watched Her Pass By (2010), and, most recently, Why I Hate Toni Morrison’s “Beloved”: Several Decades of Reading Unwisely (2014) and Dazzle Resplendent: Adventures of a Misanthropic Dog (2017).
Because of her failure to see beyond the world that raised her, Didion almost wasted two decades of literary production.
Arthur Machen sensed a deeper reality stirring underneath the superficial surfaces of suburban London.
Exploring the super-abundant comic world of Scrooge McDuck.
Scott Bradfield reviews the Library of America edition of Joan Didion’s early novels and essays.
Scott Bradfield on the pleasures and perils of the “Oz” series.
Scott Bradfield revisits Erle Stanley Gardner’s Cool and Lam novels from the 1930s and ’40s, three of which have been republished by Hard Case Crime.
Scott Bradfield on Clark Ashton Smith.
Scott Bradfield celebrates the late Donald E. Westlake.