South and West lisa-jo she finds tire tracks—and a

she finds tire tracks—and a single beaded earring left behind

whom we see harnessing every last particle of his strategic brilliance and energy

the beauty of nature

and the boundaries between civilization and the natural world

and a samurai delivers the baby of a Shinto goddess with mystical help

South and West lisa-jo she finds tire tracks—and aJoan Didion, acclaimed bestselling author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean, has long kept notebooks filled with overheard conversations, interviews, essay drafts, and collected articles. Two extended excerpts from her 1970s notebooks offer a sharp and vivid lens on American political and cultural life during that era. "Notes on the South" follows a road trip she and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, took through