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Hace 5 días · Joan Didion. “Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” 1968. This collection of essays takes its title from a W.B. Yeats poem and is a firsthand account by a wickedly good essayist who didn’t just ...
Hace 2 días · Joan Didion. “Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” 1968. This collection of essays takes its title from a W.B. Yeats poem and is a firsthand account by a wickedly good essayist who didn’t just write about the ’60s, but who was the decade. “Questions of straightforward power (or survival) politics, questions of quite indifferent public policy, questions of almost anything,” Didion writes ...
Hace 5 días · The novelist Joan Didion published two collections of incisive social and literary commentary, Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968) and The White Album (1979). The title essay of the first collection was an honest investigation of the forces that gave colour and significance to the counterculture of the 1960s, a subject also explored with ...
Hace 2 días · One ultimately shaped and experienced by his own outsider views (like Didion documenting the “dark side” of Haight-Ashbury hippies in 1967’s “Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” quoted above). And what his photos and their accompanying interview transcriptions told the “squares” of America was this: their precious way of life was an ...
Hace 3 días · Slouching Towards Bethlehem . Jul 6. Whenever I read these economics posts of yours, the following thought always occurs. If only professional economists could manage to get across to a lay public that economics is essentially a study of human behaviour (rather than dollars-and-cents abstractions and policy positions on resource allocation ...
Hace 3 días · But her early work, in the collections “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” and “The White Album,” led her fans to believe she was just like them, that she could understand them. “A lot of people read these pieces,” she recalled in 2011. “People would come to me for, like, advice, and I hated it.” ...
Hace 2 días · This is a list of seven books to save democracy, one reader at a time (along with a sidebar of Kim’s top picks). Joan Didion. “Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” 1968. This collection of essays ...
