every page bearing earnest hope that at last metamorphoses into a concoction of bitterness and fragile beauty and heart-wrench, the kind that lingers on your tongue long after it has been slowly devoured.

‘art that was supposed to be subversive, irreverent, shocking, but was all just canned counterculture crap.’

on joan didion. didion might have passed away in december 2021, but the cult of joan lives on. for decades, joan didion has been idolized for her californian glamour, her raw and cutting prose, her astute observations on society and her unapologetic-ness in expressing them…