South and West | Didion Joan | Twarda

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bNational Bestseller b pbJoan Didion has always kept notebooks--of overheard dialogue, interviews, drafts of essays, copies of articles. Here are two extended excerpts from notebooks she kept in the 1970s read together, they form a piercing view of the American political and cultural landscape.b pOne of the Best Books of the Year NPR, iHarper's Bazaari p Notes on the South traces a road trip that she and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, took through Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Her acute observations about the small towns they pass through, her interviews with local figures, and their preoccupation with race, class, and heritage suggest a South largely unchanged today. pCalifornia Notes began as an assignment from iRolling Stonei on the Patty Hearst trial. Though Didion never wrote the piece, the time she spent watching the trial in San Francisco triggered thoughts about the West and her own upbringing in Sacramento. Here we not only see Didion's signature irony and imagination

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