The White Album, by Joan Didion
Supercontext: an autopsy of media
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The Importance of Women in Fiction
Diddy says critics are missing the quality of her writing that no one else was bringing to the table. The New York Times 1979 white album review spends a lot of time talking about how her female characters in her novels seem to have the same problems as Diddy had, she says. "I think that maybe their difficulty here was that she didn't have a two-dimensional slot"
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