South and West : from a notebook / Joan Didion ; foreword by Nathaniel Rich.
Publication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.Edition: First editionDescription: xx, 126 pages ; 20 cmISBN:- 9781524732790 (hc.)
- Didion, Joan
- Didion, Joan -- Travel -- Southern States
- Hearst, Patricia, 1954- -- Trials, litigation, etc
- Nineteen seventies
- Biography as a literary form -- Essays
- Women journalists -- United States -- Essays
- Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Essays
- Women novelists, American -- 20th century -- Essays
- American essays -- Women authors
- American essays -- 21st century
- United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Southern States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- California -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
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- PS3554.I33 A6 2017
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"This is a Borzoi book"--Title-page verso.
Notes on the South -- California notes.
Two excerpts from never-before-seen notebooks offer insights into the author's literary mind and process and includes notes on her Sacramento upbringing, her life in the Gulf states, her views on prominent locals and her experiences during a formative "Rolling Stone" assignment. Joan Didion has always kept notebooks of overheard dialogue, observations, interviews, drafts of essays, and copies of articles. This book begins with a road trip she took with her husband John Gregory Dunne, in June 1970, through Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Her acute observations about the small towns they pass through, her interviews with prominent local figures, and their preoccupation with race, class, and heritage seem to suggest a South largely unchanged today. "California notes" started 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 West, the Hearsts, and her own upbringing in Sacramento.
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