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Tuesday, October 18, 2005 12:00 AM

The long goodbye

In her extraordinary memoir, Joan Didion grieves for her family and connects with her past -- and us.
By Andrew O'Hehir

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  • Tuesday, October 18, 2005 05:45 AM

    Macho != Bad

    All of this is to say that Didion's fans experience her work on an intimate, personal level as well as an intellectual one. (Because of that, her influence on journalism is much more profound than the macho histrionics of Tom Wolfe or Hunter S. Thompson.)

    Can we please appreciate Didion without knocking other writers while doing it?

    —Krystalex Read Krystalex's other letters

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