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The Lost Girl Lets Go
There’s something about the midday nature of the appointment that gives it a furtive cast: The putting on of mom-like clothes, stockings and “better” shoes, garnet lip gloss and a comb pulled through...
View ArticleApocatastasis at the Essex
“You have to choose the places you don’t walk away from.” —Joan Didion This one’s for Sarinah Viya Kalb, who was there. With love. And so the season of death returns: the leaves now in their last burst...
View ArticlePrecious Things Come from Staying
Joan Didion’s family, she says, are a tribe of leavers. In her 2004 book Where I Was From, she begins with her great-great-great-great-grandmother and traces a family history lined with people who, she...
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