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Slouching Towards Bethlehem

by Joan Didion · 1968

★★★★½ 4.5/5 · ALLO'S PICK
Didion's account of California in the 1960s — the counterculture, the collapse, the center not holding. The title essay about Haight-Ashbury is a masterpiece of immersive reporting.
Allo's take
Didion invented a whole mode of personal journalism. Even if you've read the essays before, reading them together shows you what the project was.
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