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SOUTH AND WEST - JOAN DIDION GEBUNDEN

From the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking:
two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks--writings that offer an illuminating
glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. Joan Didion has always kept notebooks:
of overheard dialogue  observations  interviews  drafts of essays and articles--and here is one
such draft that traces a road trip she took with her husband  John Gregory Dunne  in June 1970
through Louisiana  Mississippi  and Alabama. She interviews prominent local figures  describes
motels  diners  a deserted reptile farm  a visit with Walker Percy  a ladies' brunch at the
Mississippi Broadcasters' Convention. She writes about the stifling heat  the almost viscous
pace of life  the sulfurous light  and the preoccupation with race  class  and heritage she
finds in the small towns they pass through. And from a different notebook: the California Notes
that began as an assignment from Rolling Stone on the Patty Hearst trial of 1976. Though Didion
never wrote the piece  watching the trial and being in San Francisco triggered thoughts about
the city  its social hierarchy  the Hearsts  and her own upbringing in Sacramento. Here  too 
is the beginning of her thinking about the West  its landscape  the western women who were
heroic for her  and her own lineage  all of which would appear later in her acclaimed 2003 book
Where I Was From. One of TIME's most anticipated books of 2017 One of The New York Times Book
Review's What You'll Be Reading in 2017 Incldued among the Best Books of March 2017 by both
LitHub and Signature

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