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Article: Joan Didion: the writer who can capture America like no one else. (View Woman).(Interview)
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- November 1, 2001
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Thirteen years after covering her first presidential election campaign, Joan Didion has published her definitive collection of political essays (Political Fictions, Knopf) inspired by her experiences "on the bus." Even from this distance, and even after the Gore/Bush debacle, her observations have that cool sting we're accustomed to getting from her, alcohol on a paper cut. And, like alcohol on a paper cut, the sting might lead to a healthier healing. It is Didion's cool perspective on hot issues that has made her work some of the most powerful writing of our time. This interview, done a few weeks before the World Trade Center disaster, discusses the issues laid out in ...