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‘My Wine Bills Have Gone Down.' How Joan Didion Is Weathering the Pandemic
1 month ago | By Time
Joan Didion suffers no fools. And nor should she have to. Her resume is the stuff of legends, from launching her career as a college senior by winning an essay contest sponsored by Vogue, which landed her a job at the magazine, to writing one of the first major pieces that cast doubt on the guilt of the since-exonerated Central Park Five. She won a National Book Award and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for a searing book, The Year of Magical Thinking , on that most delicate and timeless of subjects-grief-fusing journalistic observation with wrenching personal history. She shopped for...
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