This is a book club episode. In it, Travis and Amanda will discuss and analyze the first half of SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM by Joan Didion. You should expect full “spoilers,” discussions of rhetorical elements, and celebrations / critiques of style and substance.
From the cover: “The remarkable debut essay collection by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, it explores such subjects as John Wayne and Howard Hughes; growing up in California; the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room; and San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture.”