A Tuscan Retreat Where ‘Literature is the Primary Value’
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A Tuscan Retreat Where ‘Literature is the Primary Value’
### Joan Didion
- Best Known Work:
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968) – A seminal collection of essays capturing the spirit of the 1960s, particularly in California.
- The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) – A powerful memoir about grief and the death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne.
- Underrated/Underdiscovered Work:
- Play It As It Lays (1970) – A
... See moreSam found the Montalembert to be its usual charming self. Tucked away off the Rue du Bac, the hotel is small, chic, and friendly. The younger, less grand ladies of the fashion world descend on it each year during the collections. Authors, their agents, and publishers haunt the bar, looking intense over their whisky as they brood about their royalti
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