![]() The Southern trip’s purpose, like its itinerary, was vague: “There was no reportorial imperative to any of the places I went … no celebrated murders, trials, integration orders, confrontations, not even any celebrated acts of God.” The second, “California Notes,” only a handful of pages, originated in a story assignment by Jann Wenner, then the editor of Rolling Stone, about the San Francisco trial of kidnapped American heiress turned gun-wielding radical Patty Hearst. “The idea,” she explains, “was to start in New Orleans and from there we had no plan.” ![]() The first and more extensive is “Notes on the South,” an impressionistic record of a meandering, month-long driving trip in 1970 with her late husband (the writer John Gregory Dunne) through Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. What we have here is two excerpts from notebooks the writer kept in the 1970s - intended as raw material for articles that were assigned or contemplated. ![]() Of course, the contents aren’t exactly new. Imagine the joy, then, of a new volume of Didion, even one as slender as this. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menuīy Margaret Sullivan, The Washington PostĪmong Joan Didion’s admirers, there is a subset so smitten that they (all right, we) would willingly read her collected grocery lists. ![]()
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