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Claire Donald

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

And during her senior year, she writes an essay on San Francisco architect William Worcester.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Do you know him?

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

That sounds actually kind of familiar.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Our San Francisco girly.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Yeah.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

I feel like there's been some like tour that I've been on before where it's like this guy.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Dish guy.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Dish guy.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Well, she wrote an essay on that guy, and she ended up winning the Prix de Prix, and she gets offered a job at Vogue.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

That is so chic.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Have you read the essay?

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

No, I have not.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

So she was offered a job at Vogue, and she moves to New York City at 20 years old, and she said, it was very thrilling to me, naturally.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

I mean, so this is in the 50s?

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

This was in 56.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

At this point, is New York like, we went through it in New York in like 30s and 40s.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Are we seeing the light now in the 50s?

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

I think we are seeing a light in the 50s.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

And again, she is moving from Sacramento and Berkeley vibe.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

So it's completely different.