L2L Slouching Towards Bethlehem

“Slouching Towards Bethlehem”

Joan Didion

Joan Didion started as a magazine writer and wrote so well that her articles transformed journalism. She followed with incisive and entertaining essays, fiction, and screenplays, but her first nonfiction book was a collection of essays called Slouching Towards Bethlehem, an acute and instructive look at America of the late ’60s. Leigh, P. T., and Dr. C discuss the essay of the same name — a ground zero report on Haight-Ashbury — and at Didion’s immense contribution to American literature.