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Joan Didion

What was it like to be Joan Didion’s personal assistant?

John Fea   |  June 13, 2024

Here is a taste of an excerpt of Cory Leadbeater’s memoir, The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: In the fall of 2013, my days and nights were wonderful and simple. I would wake in the morning to find […]

In sixty years American society has moved from “we shall overcome” to “you will not replace us”

John Fea   |  August 16, 2022

Over at Zocalo Public Square, writer David Ulin offers some reflections on Joan Didion’s 1967 essay “Slouching Toward Bethlehem” and how her words continue to resonate. Here is a taste: What we’re seeing is not a matter of disagreement or […]