Episode 66: The White Album

DID YOU MISS US? Reading with Reds returns for Season Four, and we’re talking about Joan Didion’s The White Album as the first of a three-part series on The New Journalism. We discuss Didion’s recording and perception of the 1960s, non-fiction writing and style, reactionary politics, and why you have to take a bottle of bourbon on all your travels. Remember to email us with suggestions for institutions that we should for real abolish, like for real for real.

We read the Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux edition. We recommend Sulamith Firestone’s The Dialectic of Sex because Didion hates it and it deserves to be revisited.

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