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Slouching Towards Bethlehem

by Joan Didion

  • FINISHED
  • Finished April 2022
  • First published 1968

essays culture

Didion collects essays on 1960s California, including hippies in Haight-Ashbury and ordinary lives in decline.   She also writes personal pieces about self-respect and leaving New York.