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A First Look Into the Joan Didion Archives
Her papers and John Gregory Dunne’s open to researchers at the New York Public Library today.
Virginia Woolf, however, did not include an entry about Marlon Brando’s organizing on behalf of the Beverly Hills chapter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The thoughts range from plot to character to theme, and one line jumps out: “MORE OF ME IN NARRATOR.” Didion’s presence in her writing arguably grew more prominent as her career went on, perhaps reaching its peak with her memoirs of mourning, The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights. Possibly the funniest document in the archive: a school essay about pet peeves Didion wrote shortly before her 16th birthday, one in which her arch tone is already on full display.
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