SOUTH AND WEST

From the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking: two extended excerpts from her never-b efore-seen notebooks--writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. Joan Didion has a lways kept notebooks: of overheard dialogue, observations, interviews, drafts of essays and articles--and here is one such draft tha t traces a road trip she took with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, in June 1970, through Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. She i nterview...[Read more]