Friday, January 16, 2015

Why We Love Joan Didion and Joni Mitchell as Iconography

Why We Love Joan Didion and Joni Mitchell as Iconography

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The idea of Joan Didion-as-symbol has been floating around in the ether lately. It’s quick cultural shorthand to say that, particularly if you are a middle-class white girl with writerly aspirations, you have good taste in writing, which in the case of “Joan Didion” may also translate to, “I have good taste/I could work for Vogue/I could see the dim future of a rotten decade and take to my bed for days, an aura around my head.” … Read More

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