Evelyn McDonnell
@evelynmcdonnell.bsky.social
Lady scholar. Woman who writes.
“I HAVE FOLLOWED MY INSTINCTS AND TRIED TO USE COMMON SENSE IN MY BEHAVIOR.” Joan Didion said she wanted this quote from Mina Curtiss to be her epitaph. To celebrate the paperback of “The World According to Joan Didion,” Ms. published an excerpt in which I talk about “the California woman.”
Forget East Coast Cool—Joan Didion Was a California Woman
An excerpt from The World According to Joan Didion by Evelyn McDonnell about womanhood, feminism, identity and California
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July 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
“I HAVE FOLLOWED MY INSTINCTS AND TRIED TO USE COMMON SENSE IN MY BEHAVIOR.” Joan Didion said she wanted this quote from Mina Curtiss to be her epitaph. To celebrate the paperback of “The World According to Joan Didion,” Ms. published an excerpt in which I talk about “the California woman.”
Starting today readers who perhaps couldn’t afford the hardbound version of “The World According to Joan Didion” can enjoy the paperback. I’ll be celebrating its release with a reading and signing at 5 in Bayfield, Wi.
www.apostleislandsbooksellers.com/events
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Apostle Islands Booksellers
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July 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Starting today readers who perhaps couldn’t afford the hardbound version of “The World According to Joan Didion” can enjoy the paperback. I’ll be celebrating its release with a reading and signing at 5 in Bayfield, Wi.
www.apostleislandsbooksellers.com/events
www.apostleislandsbooksellers.com/events
In 1984 a New York Times article cast shame on Joan Didion’s author photograph for Democracy. Archival research reveals that during the journalistic scuffle, the author answered a question that many have wondered: “Yes, I am a feminist,” she told the gate-keeping Christopher Lehmann-Haupt.
How Being Slut-Shamed by The New York Times Brought Out the Feminist in Joan Didion
New archival documents reveal how a sexist critique in The New York Times pushed Joan Didion to finally claim feminism as her own.
msmagazine.com
July 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
In 1984 a New York Times article cast shame on Joan Didion’s author photograph for Democracy. Archival research reveals that during the journalistic scuffle, the author answered a question that many have wondered: “Yes, I am a feminist,” she told the gate-keeping Christopher Lehmann-Haupt.
In his latest book “Everything Is Now”: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde — Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop,” J. Hoberman offers a comprehensive overview of an inventive, tumultuous place and time. I reviewed for The New York Times. tinyurl.com/mw4nmst2
Book Review: ‘Everything Is Now,’ by J. Hoberman
In “Everything Is Now,” J. Hoberman recreates the theater, film and music scenes that helped fuel the cultural storm of the ’60s.
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June 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM
In his latest book “Everything Is Now”: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde — Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop,” J. Hoberman offers a comprehensive overview of an inventive, tumultuous place and time. I reviewed for The New York Times. tinyurl.com/mw4nmst2
The US government is in the process of terrorizing its own people. I wrote this essay a few months ago, after they came for an innocent member of my family. Sadly, its words have become more relevant.
magazine.lmu.edu/articles/dis...
magazine.lmu.edu/articles/dis...
Disappeared – LMU Magazine
Evelyn McDonnell describes the loss of a loved who was seized and detained amid round-ups currently being conducted by the U.S. government.
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June 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM
The US government is in the process of terrorizing its own people. I wrote this essay a few months ago, after they came for an innocent member of my family. Sadly, its words have become more relevant.
magazine.lmu.edu/articles/dis...
magazine.lmu.edu/articles/dis...
On this Memorial Day, I'll take my marching orders from the Queen, the Boss, and the drummer.
Read the article:
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Graphic by Terelle Jerricks
Read the article:
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Graphic by Terelle Jerricks
May 27, 2025 at 1:53 AM
On this Memorial Day, I'll take my marching orders from the Queen, the Boss, and the drummer.
Read the article:
www.randomlengthsnews.com/archives/202...
Graphic by Terelle Jerricks
Read the article:
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Graphic by Terelle Jerricks
The marine mammals of SoCal have been in mortal crisis for 2 months. I’ve been dealing with the DA event as a volunteer at the Marine Mammal Care Center. I wrote about the crisis and the need for volunteers for the Earth Day edition of Random Lengths www.randomlengthsnews.com/archives/202...
April 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The marine mammals of SoCal have been in mortal crisis for 2 months. I’ve been dealing with the DA event as a volunteer at the Marine Mammal Care Center. I wrote about the crisis and the need for volunteers for the Earth Day edition of Random Lengths www.randomlengthsnews.com/archives/202...
Last night I attended a tribute to the late, great Chilean artist and musician Violeta Parra that was also a celebration of the publication of “Thanks to Life,” a comprehensive scholarly biography by Ericka Verba.
January 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Last night I attended a tribute to the late, great Chilean artist and musician Violeta Parra that was also a celebration of the publication of “Thanks to Life,” a comprehensive scholarly biography by Ericka Verba.
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This is written by the bishop who stood up to Orange Voldemort. Everyone should be buying this. It's available on Amazon for $14. I'm an atheist and I'm buying it. #booksky
January 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
This is written by the bishop who stood up to Orange Voldemort. Everyone should be buying this. It's available on Amazon for $14. I'm an atheist and I'm buying it. #booksky
Joan Didion in "Los Angeles Notebook," 1965-67. Once again, she warned us.
January 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Joan Didion in "Los Angeles Notebook," 1965-67. Once again, she warned us.
The billionaire bozos who are wrecking today’s newspapers have made more apparent than ever the need for independent media. I’m honored to be a columnist for Random Lengths News and to have my essay about the imperative for a free press be the lead story in their 45th anniversary issue.
The Imperative For Independent Journalism - Random Lengths News
Random Lengths News The Imperative For Independent Journalism - The Los Angeles Harbor Area's Only Independently owned news magazine serving San Pedro, Wilmington, Carson, Lomita, Torrance, Long Beach...
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December 20, 2024 at 6:18 PM
The billionaire bozos who are wrecking today’s newspapers have made more apparent than ever the need for independent media. I’m honored to be a columnist for Random Lengths News and to have my essay about the imperative for a free press be the lead story in their 45th anniversary issue.
Brilliant sunset and super low tide tonight. Our neighbor snapped us walking and our dog running with strangers.
December 17, 2024 at 2:05 AM
Brilliant sunset and super low tide tonight. Our neighbor snapped us walking and our dog running with strangers.
Snorkeling in a California kelp forest is like floating over a tropical canopy, but with brightly colored Garibaldi darting through the leaves. I recently had the pleasure of experiencing this with Michael Marty-Rivera, kelp curator at Kelp Ark at AltaSea.
www.randomlengthsnews.com/archives/202...
www.randomlengthsnews.com/archives/202...
Kelp’s Green Hope—The Fight to Protect Earth’s Ancient Ocean Forests - Random Lengths News
Random Lengths News Kelp’s Green Hope—The Fight to Protect Earth’s Ancient Ocean Forests - The Los Angeles Harbor Area's Only Independently owned news magazine serving San Pedro, Wilmington, Carson, L...
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December 13, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Snorkeling in a California kelp forest is like floating over a tropical canopy, but with brightly colored Garibaldi darting through the leaves. I recently had the pleasure of experiencing this with Michael Marty-Rivera, kelp curator at Kelp Ark at AltaSea.
www.randomlengthsnews.com/archives/202...
www.randomlengthsnews.com/archives/202...
Waving hi in La Jolla.
December 7, 2024 at 10:38 PM
Waving hi in La Jolla.
There were these crazy ripples in the sky at Cabrillo Beach tonight. Venus lurked among them and a jet navigated their squiggly trails. They looked like water breaking on shallow shores or the sand patterns beneath the waves.
The world turned upside down. Anyone know what these clouds are called?
The world turned upside down. Anyone know what these clouds are called?
November 26, 2024 at 1:36 AM
There were these crazy ripples in the sky at Cabrillo Beach tonight. Venus lurked among them and a jet navigated their squiggly trails. They looked like water breaking on shallow shores or the sand patterns beneath the waves.
The world turned upside down. Anyone know what these clouds are called?
The world turned upside down. Anyone know what these clouds are called?
Saturday morning Cabrillo beach
November 23, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Saturday morning Cabrillo beach
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AOC comes out swinging against a Nancy Mace for targeting Sarah McBride.
"They're doing this so that Nancy Mace can ... fundraise off an email. They're not doing this to protect people. They're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kinds. And everybody should reject it. It's gross."
"They're doing this so that Nancy Mace can ... fundraise off an email. They're not doing this to protect people. They're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kinds. And everybody should reject it. It's gross."
November 21, 2024 at 2:48 AM
AOC comes out swinging against a Nancy Mace for targeting Sarah McBride.
"They're doing this so that Nancy Mace can ... fundraise off an email. They're not doing this to protect people. They're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kinds. And everybody should reject it. It's gross."
"They're doing this so that Nancy Mace can ... fundraise off an email. They're not doing this to protect people. They're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kinds. And everybody should reject it. It's gross."
This might explain why Phillips 66 is closing its refineries in Wilmington and Carson. Don't let the door hit you in the a** on the way out! www.dailybreeze.com/2024/11/21/p...
Phillips 66 indicted on charges it dumped tainted water from Carson refinery into sewer system
The oil refiner is accused of illegally discharging hundreds of thousands of gallons of industrial waste during the pandemic.
www.dailybreeze.com
November 22, 2024 at 2:47 AM
This might explain why Phillips 66 is closing its refineries in Wilmington and Carson. Don't let the door hit you in the a** on the way out! www.dailybreeze.com/2024/11/21/p...
Remastered recordings by the Gits remind us what was lost when Mia Zapata was killed.
November 16, 2024 at 11:23 PM
Remastered recordings by the Gits remind us what was lost when Mia Zapata was killed.
I do like an app named after something in nature.
November 15, 2024 at 11:53 PM
I do like an app named after something in nature.