Already Missing Joan Didion

The end of an age.

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1. Joan Didion

I don’t have much to add to the many pieces praising Joan Didion, who passed away last week. She was a writer’s writer. Maybe the best of her generation. And Zadie Smith’s essay about her hits on a very peculiar part of what happened to Didion in the culture:

[H]er most ironic formulations are…