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brio
Joan Didion, for all her stylistic brio, becomes straightforward
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lacuna
for memoirs, they still leave holes, pockets of deliberate vagueness, writerly lacunae
on Joan Didion's memoirs (Year, Blue Nights)
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prurient
a culture more enamored of prurient gossip than of literature itself
on biographies of great writers
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vituperation
there is punitive, vituperative quality in the published reviews
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