Slouching Towards Bethlehem

by Joan Didion

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Didion's 1968 essay collection captures 1960s California with cold clarity. Includes the influential "On Keeping a Notebook," widely regarded as one of the finest essays ever written on why we write things down.

Published:: 1968
Pages:: 238

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Slouching Towards Bethlehem is cited for Didion's essay "On Keeping a Notebook," which Holiday describes finding years later in a chair he bought at auction after Didion's death — a moment of "goosebumps" about his own notecard system.

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