Episode 148
The White Album, by Joan Didion
Supercontext: an autopsy of media · Charlie Bennett
March 15, 20191h 43mExplicit
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Show Notes
This 1979 collection of essays attempts to reveal the 1960s and California as stories without narratives. We discuss how Didion's work was branded because of her gender, class, and lack of politics, despite her insistence that writing was only an attempt to make sense out of chaos.
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Additional Resources:
- The Top 10 Essays Since 1950
- Joan Didion's Style
- Joan Didion: Staking Out California
- There's a reason Joan Didion's work endures: she changed the way we wrote
- We Tell Ourselves Stories: Didion's "White Album" Takes to the Stage
- From literary heavyweight to lifestyle brand: exploring the cult of Joan Didion
- The White Album, by Joan Didion