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### Joan Didion
- Best Known Work:
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968) – A seminal collection of essays capturing the spirit of the 1960s, particularly in California.
- The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) – A powerful memoir about grief and the death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne.
- Underrated/Underdiscovered Work:
- Play It As It Lays (1970) – A
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She knows that a poet like Richard would move sternly through the same morning, editing it, dismissing incidental ugliness along with incidental beauty, seeking the economic and historical truth behind these old brick town houses, the austere stone complications of the Episcopal church and the thin middle-aged man walking his Jack Russell terrier
... See moreThat Thomas had worked for the Chronicle since 1976 was easily established, as was the fact that he’d published three brief novels since that date. Out of a sense of delicacy Carleton never mentioned that he owned all three of these, and found them elegant and elliptical, couched in prose that had the cadence of the King James Bible, and concerned
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