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Joan Didion

Political Fictions (Knopf) We discover that the strategy underlying Joan Didion's essays also provides the foundation for her fiction. She rejects the human need for stories with clear resolutions and, instead, searches out the messy realities that stories conceal.

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By Michael Silverblatt • Nov 29, 2001 • 30m Listen

Political Fictions (Knopf)

We discover that the strategy underlying Joan Didion's essays also provides the foundation for her fiction. She rejects the human need for stories with clear resolutions and, instead, searches out the messy realities that stories conceal.

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