The first piece, one I found interesting, was about a death that didn’t add up, one that had to be murder, and why police thought so. Oftentimes, her presence is so absent that I assumed several pieces were written based on research from other sources, though she explains that she visited these places herself. My biggest issue was the distance between Didion, who is acting as an investigative journalist, and her subject matter. To be forthcoming, I did not finish this collection of essays, stopping on page 141 out of 238 pages. SEVEN PLACES OF THE MIND Notes from a Native Daughter Letter from Paradise, 21° 19' N.Joan Didion’s collection of essays contained in Slouching Towards Bethlehem was all “written for magazines during 1965, 1966, and 1967” and most were “ idea.” She notes, “thirteen of the twenty pieces were published in The Saturday Evening Post.” Didion writes about Joan Baez’s school, John Wayne, people getting married in Vegas, the lifestyle around Haight Street, etc. PERSONALS On Keeping a Notebook On Self-Respect I Can't Get That Monster out of My Mind On Morality On Going Home III.
(M.-L.) 7000 Romaine, Los Angeles 38 California Dreaming Marrying Absurd Slouching Towards Bethlehem II. LIFE STYLES IN THE GOLDEN LAND Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream John Wayne: A Love Song Where the Kissing Never Stops Comrade Laski, C.P.U.S.A. These essays, keynoted by an extraordinary report on San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, all reflect that, in one way or another, things are falling apart, "the center cannot hold." An incisive look at contemporary American life, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has been admired for several decades as a stylistic masterpiece. More than any other book of its time, this collection captures the mood of 1960s America, especially the center of its counterculture, California. Universally acclaimed when it was first published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has become a modern classic.
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