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Why Joan Didion's fiction matters more than you (or I) ever knew

Por: Los Angeles Times Entertainment April 12, 2023

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I came late, let me admit it, to the novels of Joan Didion. For too long, I considered them if not an afterthought then an ancillary line of work. Such a perception is hardly uncommon; the essays are what we think about when we think about Didion, and in more recent years, the triad of memoirs (“Where I Was From,” “The Year of Magical Thinking” and “Blue Nights”) with which she effectively concluded her career. And yet, the novels.... + full article



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