i know exactly what you meanYou're the first person I thought of when I heard the news.
Mate, you like Ben Lerner.Terrible. Absolutely terrible. As a writer.
I think they all do tbh.Also I think she made up loads of her reporting. A proto Stephen Glass if you will. When it's too sensational to believe, it was probably fabricated. Con artist of a thinker; control freak of a person.
There's more than enough writing out there sympathetic to the counterculture, isn't there? Didion was my first exposure to some of the very real problems with it after years of hearing how free and revolutionary the whole thing was.Yes, he's wonderful, and her writing on the counterculture was condescending, smug, insulated, the exact opposite of everything you want
Yeah, the title essay of The White Album's partly about Tate, Manson and a member of the family. She's a California writer.I should read some Didion - she wrote the things about LA/Manson etc right
FairThere's more than enough writing out there sympathetic to the counterculture, isn't there? Didion was my first exposure to some of the very real problems with it after years of hearing how free and revolutionary the whole thing was.