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Joan Didion’s Eternal Cool

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The first biography of Joan Didion falls far short of a definitive portrait of one of America’s greatest living writers—which is just the way the enigmatic Didion would want it.

Lizzie Crocker
Lizzie Crocker
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Lizzie Crocker

Lizzie Crocker

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