![]() ![]() ![]() It also means that the style hasn’t dated in the way the subject matter undoubtedly has. She is an impassive narrator, but her distinctive prose makes it clear where her true feelings lie.Īlmost all journalism these days feels like New Journalism, so it is easy to forget just how progressive these essays must have been at the time. The style of New Journalism is no longer as revolutionary as it once was, but Didion inserts herself into all these narratives to create greater nuance, detail and democratization of the subject matter. First published in 1968, Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem is a collection of essays, largely about California and published mainly within the pages of The Saturday Evening Post across the previous decade.įifty years on, what is most striking about the collection is the writing, which is vivid and alive. ![]()
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