Slouching towards Bethlehem

by Joan Didion

1968238 pages

Dell Publ.·34 editions

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cherryJul 4, 2025

“. . . California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is troubled by some buried but ineradicable suspicion that things had better work here, because here, beneath that immense bleached sky, is where we run out of continent.”
—Joan Didion

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Slouching towards Bethlehem

I Pretend To Pray

"...I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and you never love anyone quite that way again....

Slouching towards Bethlehem

"If you can remember the '60s, you weren't really there"

read this in preparation for some upcoming non-fiction essay/interview/journalism stuff I am going to be doing soon, and wow - this really impresse...

Slouching towards Bethlehem

Remebering

I think perhaps I always forget what Didion is capable of. I wanted to reread this before passing it off to my flatmate, to be sure I had remembere...