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  1. Slouching Towards Bethlehem - The Saturday Evening Post

    In her transformative essay from 1967, Joan Didion takes a closer look at the dark side of the Haight-Ashbury counterculture during the Summer of Love.

  2. Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Wikipedia

    Slouching Towards Bethlehem is a 1968 collection of essays by Joan Didion that mainly describes her experiences in California during the 1960s. It takes its title from the poem " The Second Coming " by W. B. Yeats . [ 1 ]

  3. The Radicalization of Joan Didion | The New Yorker

    Slouching Towards Bethlehem” is a classic of what was later named the New Journalism. Didion used a vernacular voice that mimicked the laid-back aimlessness of Haight speech. More New...

  4. Slouching Towards Bethlehem - JOAN DIDION

    Her essays not only describe the subject at hand—the murderous housewife, the little girl trailing the rock group, the millionaire bunkered in his mansion—but also offer a broader vision of America, one that is both terrifying and tender, ominous and uniquely her own.

  5. Slouching Towards Bethlehem Summary and Study Guide ...

    Slouching Towards Bethlehem is Joan Didion’s 1968 collection of essays that document her experiences living in California from 1961 to 1967. It is her first collection of nonfiction (many of the pieces originally appeared in The Saturday Evening Post ) and is hailed as a seminal document of culture and counterculture in 1960s California.

  6. Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays (FSG Classics): Didion ...

    Celebrated, iconic, and indispensable, Joan Didion’s first work of nonfiction, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, is considered a watershed moment in American writing. First published in 1968, the collection was critically praised as one of the “best prose written in this country.”