Slouching Towards Los Angeles av Steffie Nelson

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<div><b><i>Slouching Towards Los Angeles</i> is a love letter and thank you note to Joan Didion.<br></b><br></div><div>In <i>The White Album</i>, Joan Didion famously wrote that “a place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively…loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image.” Cruising in her Daytona yellow Corvette Stingray, taking it all in behind dark glasses, Joan Didion claimed California for all time. <i>Slouching Towards Los Angeles</i> is a multi-faceted portrait of the literary icon who, in turn, belongs to us.<br><br>This collection of original essays covers the turf that made Didion a sensation—Hollywood and Patty Hearst; Malibu, Manson and the Mojave; the Summer of Love and the Central Park Five—while bringing together some of the finest voices of today’s Los Angeles and beyond. <i>Slouching Towards Los Angeles</i> is a love letter and thank you note; personal memoir and social commentary; cul