Past, Present and Future Collide in Joan Didion’s ‘South and West’ - The New York Times
Michiko Kakutani
Of New Orleans in June, she writes: “The place is physically dark, dark like the negative of a photograph, dark like an : The atmosphere absorbs its own light, never reflects light but sucks it in until random objects glow with a morbid luminescence.
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