I have reread the essay numerous times since then, and each time, the San Francisco of Didion’s world has felt even more similar to the San Francisco of my world. Characters that felt familiar, somehow almost too real. I remember feeling transfixed by it partly because of Didion’s incisive writing and partly because of the striking characters that Didion met on the streets of San Francisco in the sixties. ![]() ![]() The first time I read Joan Didion’s “ Slouching Towards Bethlehem” was in 2017, which was coincidentally also the year of the essay’s 50th anniversary.
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