Here are six pieces written in 1968 from the "Points West" Saturday Evening Post
column Joan Didion shared from 1964 to 1969 with her husband, John
Gregory Dunne about: American newspapers; a session with Gamblers
Anonymous; a visit to San Simeon; being rejected by Stanford; dropping
in on Nancy Reagan, wife of the then-governor of California, while a TV
crew filmed her at home; and an evening at the annual reunion of WWII
veterans from the 101st Airborne Association at the Stardust Hotel in
Las Vegas. Here too is a 1976 piece from the New York Times magazine on "Why I Write"; a piece about short stories from New West in 1978; and from The New Yorker,
a piece on Hemingway from 1998, and on Martha Stewart from 2000. Each
one is classic Didion: incisive, bemused, and stunningly prescient.
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