Marjorie Williams - The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Writings on Politics, Family, and Fate
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I never met Williams, but what this book reveals is a woman who was incapable of being a victim. She lives in the modern world of Halloween costumes and working mom quandaries, but the story she tells is straight out of Greek literatureof a person cheated by fate, but facing reality unflinchingly and asserting personal honor despite it all.
Williamss journalistic gifts include her delicious use of detail, wicked humor and a psychological insight so telling it raises the question of why anyone ever agreed to submit to her scrutiny.... It is the heart-rending Hit by Lightning: A Cancer Memoir that best displays Williamss to-the-core candor as she answers the macabre question everyone has probably indulged in: What would you do if you learned you had a short time to live?
Williams sentences dance. Theyre acrobatic, graceful and sassy.... A call not to respectful tribute, but to pleasure and enlightenment.
Dramatic and analytic... meticulously walks readers through both the agony and the uplift.
Vanity Fair for A Matter of Life and Death, a longer version of which
appears in this volume as Hit by Lightning: A Cancer Memoir
Like Joan Didion... Ms. Williams had a privileged perch from which to write about lifes most universal experience: death itself. She earned it the hard way, with meticulous profiles that, as she once put it, worked the seam between the accepted narrative, usually hammered out between the Washington press corps and its sources, and the grubby human nature stuff.
[Williams] had a clear-eyed way of seeing two sides of an issue, or of a persons character, an insightfulness she brought even to her intimates.... It is this book of essays and columns, which have the strengths of a great novel: insight, wit, and a fierce refusal to accept anything that struck her as too reliably orthodox....
By itself, [Hit by Lightning] is worth the price of the book.... For those who have never read Williams work, The Woman at the Washington Zoo offers many pleasures and surprises. For those already familiar with her writing, this collection is a splendid memorial to an elegant prose stylist.
Even if you didnt know Marjorie Williams through her columns and profiles in The Washington Post and Vanity Fair, youll still be moved by this posthumous collectionand finish it with a sense of loss... in describing scenes like wrestling a doctor for her medical chart, she offers a glimpse of her steel-gut gumptiona quality that served her well right until the end.
Im biased by friendship, but hardly alone in believing that our eras Henry Adams is Marjorie Williams.... The Woman at the Washington Zoo combines peerless political anthropology with heartbreaking insight into the complexities of family life and her own struggle with cancer.... And in writing about Mary McGrory, Williams summed up her own gift: There was no divining the difference between Marys talent and her ease at being indelibly herself.
Every once in a while a writers voice is presented to you and it sinks into your brain, and you think: Id like to have some more of that, please.... Williams inward-seeking pieces are, not surprisingly, her most poignant. Her cancer, as she raises two young children, is almost unbearable to contemplate.... You can find all of this very sad. Or you can find all of this very brave and learn from it. I choose the latter.
Marjorie Williams posthumous collection is both sharp and sad, revealing with equal skill public figures and the most personal moments of a private life.
This uncanny, insightful book contains revelatory pieces.... It tells the truth and breaks our hearts. There is nothing more a reader could ask.
Williams was known as an unsparing portraitist of the Washington elite in profiles she wrote for The Washington Post and Vanity Fair magazine. You knew you had arrived when Marjorie Williams called for an interview.... Her reporting was exhaustive, but it was her wit and insight and her effortless way with language that made her such a pleasure to read.
Marjorie Williams... had the ability to infuse her journalism with the sort of psychological acuity usually found only in the best fiction... an astoundingly good collection of her writings edited by her husband, Timothy Noah... In his moving introduction, Noah pays homage to the intense pleasure of his wifes company. Dipping into this compelling collection, we see what he means.
With her intellect and perception, the late Washington Post columnist Marjorie Williams possessed a kind of X-ray vision that Superman would envy.... I have not enjoyed a book about politicians and the issues that engage them so much since Richard Ben Cramers famous campaign account, What It Takes.... Williams set an Olympian standard for profiles, which unfold in a smooth, effortless style.... In her analysis of national politicians, Williams was, indeed, fierce with reality. In the face of her impending death, she exhibited a bravery that bordered on the fierce.
[Williamss] profiles are rich with personal details and insight too often passed over in stories about the powerful.... Williamss elegant style is at the same time so breezy and casual that you can imagine her writing her columns as notes to friends... Particularly moving are her writings on parenthood, marriage, and family.
As a seasoned Washington writer, Williams was both one of the pack and anomalous.... Her writing also stands out for what simmers just beneath, whether its a passage of excavatory reporting or a personal, painful insight.... Whether she was writing about presidents, changing mores or her own primal fears, Williams was artful, original and above all, honest.
Long ago, when we were children, I sat next to Marjorie Williams at The Washington Post. I say this in the same spirit that someone might be lucky enough to say they once worked in the same office as Dorothy Parker. She was an incredible wit with x-ray eyes and a voice, in print and in person, that was unmistakable. As you read these piece on Washington life and, then, on her own life, you also begin to see that she was a writer of intelligence, courage, and soul. We were lucky to have had her and lucky, too, to have this book.
Marjorie saw inside what the rest of us only see the outside ofand about the most opaque subjectsfamily, relationships and Washington pols.... What a gift to the world she was.
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