The Most Wonderful Terrible Person
Criminal
Joan Didion's Letter to Deborah
Joan Didion wrote to Deborah. She sent her a book containing a Philip Larkin poem that read "They fuck you up, your mom and dad" As a writer, I try to compartmentalize the people and events I've written about,. The writer goes in, tries to understand the story, as if the act of writing it down completed the situation, became the truth.
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