The White Album, by Joan Didion
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Joan Didion's the White Album
Joan Didion's writing is defining a time and place that we didn't live in, right? And the thrill of discovery is not just in seeing the 1960s represented through a dark mirror. The long breathless sentences that chart an inner turmoil combined with an astute eye for the times might mean. James Wilson at commentary pulls from Joan Didion's the white album, an intensely conservative, almost right wing understanding of California.
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