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It's hard to convey to the present generation what literary figures like Didion, who defined a time and a literary style, once meant. We just don't have such people in our culture anymore. The very role itself, much less the talent, just doesn't exist.
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Breaking News: Joan Didion has died at age 87. Her sharp dispatches on California and tough, terse novels forged a distinct new voice in American writing. nyti.ms/3yV6aHR
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Such a figure would be impossible now. Were a New York writer to venture to Miami now it would be 'LatinX' this and that, and a bunch of parochial Anglo projection about a world they couldn't understand for being completely outside their narrow worldview.
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