Joan Didion
has a new memoir coming out, and there's a nice profile of her in today's LATimes. Here are some of my favorite bits--"We tell ourselves stories in order to live," she begins "The White Album," then undercuts the sentiment almost immediately: "Or at least we do for a while." Implicit in those lines is a recognition of the fundamental friction between the shaping impulses of literature and the chaos of the world. "It…
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