
The White Album, by Joan Didion
Supercontext: an autopsy of media
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Joan Diddy-in and the Moneyed Set
Joan Diddy-in is a woman writing where women weren't traditionally writing and being held up to the standards of these like great white male writers. And at the same time, she's writing about things that are ostensibly about class. She seems like she does come from like a sort of upper class moneyed set as this person phrases here. But then, you know, she's hanging out with the doors while they're doing assets. I think maybe you could say that she was raised with an understanding of how one is supposed to act big quote marks.
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