Haven’t decided on Didion. Some things she writes are breezily anecdotal\u2014and no more\u2014at other times she hits the spot. Here she’s in Greenville, Mississippi, reflecting on New Orleans and the South with locals. The year is 1970.<\/p>\n
The time warp: The Civil War was yesterday, but 1960 is spoken of as if it were about 300 years ago.<\/p>\n
(from ‘South and West’. The reference to 1960 may be alluding to the possibility of JFK’s election).<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Haven’t decided on Didion. Some things she writes are breezily anecdotal\u2014and no more\u2014at other times she hits the spot. Here she’s in Greenville, Mississippi, reflecting on New Orleans and the … Continue reading “Didion: ‘the civil war was yesterday’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-didion-joan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t