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Monday, June 11, 2018

On Self-Respect: Joan Didion’s 1961 Essay from Vogue


Didion wrote the essay as the magazine was going to press, to fill the space left after another writer did not produce a piece on the same subject. She wrote it not to a word count or a line count, but to an exact character count.

Read the essay in its original layout 

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