During Joan Didion's visit to the Kelly Writers House as a Writers House Fellow, two of the sessions will be available as a live streaming video, and you are more than welcome to tune in. These sessions are:1) a reading beginning at 6:30 pm ET on Monday, March 30; and
2) an interview/discussion moderated by me beginning at 10:30 am ET on Tuesday, March 31.
To connect to the KWH-TV video stream, just go here:
writing.upenn.edu/wh/multimedia/tv
- and at the time of the program clicked on "view live video."
Kelly Writers House Fellows since 1999 are made possible by a generous ongoing grant from Paul Kelly. Among our previous Fellows: Grace Paley, John Wideman, Robert Creeley, Susan Sontag, June Jordan, Tony Kushner, Art Spiegelman, John McPhee, Jamaica Kincaid, Cynthia Ozick, Roger Angell, Adrienne Rich, Lyn Hejinian, E.L. Doctorow, John Ashbery, Michael Cunningham, Laurie Anderson, Russell Banks, James Alan McPherson, Gay Talese. For more: writing.upenn.edu/wh/people/fellows.
"I teach horizontally, meaning that while I might begin with a fixed idea of what I'm going to teach that day, I let it drift rhizomatically way off topic, often pulling it back when it gets too far. I rely on non-fixed materials to teach this way; the whole world is at my fingertips. Should I go off on a tangent about John and Rauschenberg and their love relationship as expressed in Rauschenberg's bed, an image of that bed is always a click away. From there, we can head anywhere into the non-fixed universe, be it film, text or sound. And of course, that always takes us elsewhere. As Cage says, 'We are getting nowhere fast.'" 
that anyone has yet got the imaginative measure of that terrifying day six years ago. Certainly our Tolstoy has not crawled out of the rubble. The closest we have, Don DeLillo, succeeded as an essayist-journalist ("In the Ruins of the Future: Reflections on Terror and Loss in the Shadow of September,” Harper’s, December 2001) but, to my mind, failed as a novelist ("Falling Man"). One reason, perhaps, is that the remembered emotion was instantly buried under a pile of cultural junk.' - Tod Gitlin in his review of Susan Faludi's The Terror Dream (written for 
