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Claire Donald

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

What?

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Crossover.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

This is like, once again, I thought that we were just going to be in like the 40s the whole time.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

I did not know any time frame.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Well, she didn't work with Anna Wintour, but I think that Anna really admires Joan, and Joan working at Vogue is huge.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Wow.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Was she getting paid decently, or was she taken seriously there?

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

I think she was taken seriously there.

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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

While she's living in New York, working at Vogue, she is homesick for California, though.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

She would work all day at Vogue, and then she would come home to her almost empty apartment with a portable typewriter perched on a chair.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

And so she began writing a novel about the California rivers she missed so much.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Oh, God.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

It's giving.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

I'm sorry.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

California by Joni Mitchell.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

I'm like, please.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Well, you know, I clocked that thesis and I'm going to have that as a song for the carousel.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

I was hoping.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

She starts writing this, her first novel, which is Run River.