As for flesh and blood characters, they range from John Wayne to the Flower Children of San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district, to the figure of Howard Hughes in his heyday, before he was already halfway to crazed recluse he would become by the time Didion wrote about him. Among the periodicals in which the contents appeared are the American Scholar and the New York Times Magazine.Ĭalifornia culture, as it inexorably transformed and moved to its epicenter in the Age of Aquarius, is really the dominant character of the anthology at the very least, it is the unifying theme. Slouching Towards Bethlehem is a collection of Joan Didion’s nonfiction articles and essays, originally published in various magazines throughout most of the 1960s. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.
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