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The White Album
Joan Didion · 2009 · 222 pages
First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s.
Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era—including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall—through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision, The White Album is a central text of American reportage and a classic of American autobiography.
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Anthony Bourdain
“I wish I could write like Joan Didion.”↗
David Sedaris
“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.”↗
Kim Gordon
“I was really late to getting around to this. It wasn’t until a journalist related my art sensibility and writing to her that I finally stopped rebelling and started reading! I love her asexual voice, writing in a man’s world. Her essays about California are like no one else’s.”↗
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