Subseries I.B Journalism and Other Essays

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1786170
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{"value"=>"3564464", "type"=>"local_mss"}
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{"value"=>"1959-2016", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1959/2016"}
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{"value"=>"Subseries I.B Journalism and Other Essays"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Journalism subseries ranges from 1960 until 2016 and contains research and working drafts of Didion's essays for various magazines. Many of the essays held here were later published in nonfiction books and anthologies, which has been noted in the container list.</p> <p>The beginning of the subseries holds general files that comprise a clippings scrapbook, correspondence, notes, and press identification cards. The clippings, which date from 1964 through 1969, consist primarily of Didion and Dunne's shared column, \"Points West,\" that was published in <span class=\"title\">The Saturday Evening Post</span>.</p> <p>The remainder of this subseries contains research, sound recordings (often with transcripts), and essay notes and drafts annotated by Didion, Dunne, or magazine editors. The largest group of files is for <span class=\"title\">The New York Review of Books</span>, which includes correspondence with and drafts annotated by the magazine's editor, Robert Silvers. Correspondence with Silvers is also present in Subseries I.A. Publishing and Series IV: Personal.</p> <p>Some essays in this subseries were written for other institutions, such as an exhibition catalog for the Los Angeles Museum of Art, a program for the 50th anniversary of the New York City Ballet, and introductions for other authors' works. Early writing from Didion's time writing for <span class=\"title\">Vogue</span> and <span class=\"title\">Mademoiselle</span> is found in Series IV: Personal.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>This subseries is arranged alphabetically by publication title and chronologically by article date within each publication.</p>"}
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1959
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1959
date_end
2016
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1959
date_inclusive_end
2016

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  1. General [4/2]
  2. The American Scholar
  3. Dialogue -- "On Being A Westerner"
  4. Esquire
  5. Flannery O'Connor Essay
  6. Greenfeld, Josh -- The Return of Mr. Hollywood
  7. The Guggenheim -- Biennale Exhibition Catalogue
  8. Hardwick, Elizabeth -- Seduction and Betrayal
  9. Life
  10. London Magazine -- "Why I Write"
  11. Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) -- "Duke Ellington: A Remembrance Witnessing a Memorial"
  12. Los Angeles Times
  13. Mademoiselle Articles
  14. Mapplethorpe, Robert -- Some Women
  15. Michigan Quarterly Review -- "Making Up Stories"
  16. National Review
  17. New Society -- "El Salvador and the Mechanism of Terror and The Black Night of El Salvador"
  18. New West
  19. New York City Ballet
  20. The New York Review of Books [32/2]
  21. The New York Times -- Stanley Sheinbaum [2/3]
  22. New York Times Book Review
  23. The New Yorker [5/2]
  24. "Notes on Writers, Writing, and The Written About"
  25. The Paris Review
  26. Partisan Review
  27. Richardson, Tony -- "An Introduction"
  28. The Saturday Evening Post
  29. Stanford Alumni Journal -- "The End of The World"
  30. Travel and Leisure
  31. Vogue
  32. The Washington Post -- "All In The Family"