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On Joan Didion and Memoir

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Joan Didion, smoking in front of a fancy car.

Content note: Brief discussion of rape 

For some writers, the discovery of Joan Didion is a rite of passage. Reading her bold, apocalyptic prose stirs something in us. She inspires a desire to write and chronicle the present. I first read Didion in snatches before, during, and after work. On the train, in caf…

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