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    Joan Didion is an American writer who launched her career in the 1960s after winning an essay...

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David Sedaris recommended The White Album in Books (curated)

 
The White Album
The White Album
Joan Didion | 1979 | Essays
6.0 (1 Ratings)
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"I can look back through my diary and I can tell when I discovered Joan Didion because all of a sudden I’m writing like Joan Didion. I mean it’s a very poor imitation, but there I am, writing like Joan Didion."

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Anthony Bourdain recommended The White Album in Books (curated)

 
The White Album
The White Album
Joan Didion | 1979 | Essays
6.0 (1 Ratings)
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"I wish I could write like Joan Didion."

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"Nearly all of Joan Didion contained in one volume, and therefore more of the late 20th century US than in any other writer."

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Jamie Lee Curtis recommended Angel of Repose in Books (curated)

 
Angel of Repose
Angel of Repose
Wallace Stegner | 2020 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry
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"If I had to pick one book, one example of what I love, it would be this book. I enrolled in a lecture series called “How the West Was Written” and started with Willa Cather and ended with Joan Didion. In the middle of the series we read Stegner. It is as great a book as you will ever read."

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