The White Album, by Joan Didion
Supercontext: an autopsy of media
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Joan Dydian's Distinction From Identity Politics
Joan Dydian is devoted to trying to perfect the exploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities out of an unsparing analysis of herself and others. She seems to try to write from a thousand feet above all that, so she's able to put herself in by being so removed from what people would call identity politics. "I wish there was somebody like her around nowadays writing about the stacks"
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