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Slouching Towards Biloxi: Joan Didion on Life in America's South
- jgmmo 9y agoShould put 1970 in title. It seems to be a republishing of a work created in 1970.
- dizzystar 9y agoThe notes were just released, according to the Q&A, which referenced 2017. RTFA.
- JohnnyConatus 9y agoUgh. "Life in America's South"? More like "woman who barely knows a region and visited it for a paltry amount tries to inject herself back into the cultural conversation decades later via via her re-heated leftovers from 1970." Didion has always been a world-class narcissist and clearly she will be until the end.
- dang 9y agoThis sort of attack degrades the community even if you're right. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't post like this here.
- edmccard 9y agoVery off-topic: ... At the Ramada Inn in Tuscaloosa I sat outside by the swimming pool about five o’clock one afternoon ... It looks like the illustration at the top is supposed to depict this part of the story, but I wonder why an artist illustrating an event in 1970 would include a 1986 Dodge Ramcharger[1]? [1]http://www.cardomain.com/ride/422423/1986-dodge-ramcharger/ http://www.cardomain.com/ride/422423/1986-dodge-ramcharger/
- B1FF_PSUVM 9y agoSheesh, filching from T.S. Elliot for a title to this ... stuff ...
- cheaprentalyeti 9y agoThe title wasn't filched from Eliot, but from Yeats. Anyway, I'd like to thank y'all here at Hacker News for posting this link. The paragraph on cooking is one of the most awesome bits of Bad Hemingway I've read in the past year.
- hxta98596 9y agoWell when one has been doing Bad Hemingway for 60 years, it makes sense to get good at it.