Slouching Toward Bethlehem – 4/5 Stars Turns out that I think that Joan Didion’s essays are much stronger than her novels. I think this will remain a consistency as I read more of each of these works and come to a better understanding about them. This collection, from the mid-1960s traces both American history of this time-period (in a kind of anthropological and political way) and Joan Didion’s own personal history (in a kind of cultural history). We get essays on local civic campaigns to […]
This is a story about love and death in the golden land, and begins with the country.
Slouching Toward Bethlehem by Joan Didion
Salvador by Joan Didion
The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion
Play it as it Lays by Joan Didion