“After reading the magnificent “Year of Magical Thinking,” I had to go back and re-read the book that made Joan Didion famous, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” a collection of magazine pieces from the early sixties up to around 1967. To a reader approaching them today, they are necessarily period pieces, but they are compellingly written and the best of them are extremely valuable as a razor-sharp account of the seismic shift in the American culture that was occurring at that time. “Things...”

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