Mind-forg'd manacles
Not all friends of Dorothy are friends of Judy
Joan Didion in Haight-Ashbury, 1967 (photo Ted Streshinsky/Corbis)
The first time I read Joan Didion’s iconic 1967 essay about the Summer of Love, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” I felt somewhat underwhelmed. This was because Didion’s trenchant, laconic style has been so widely imitated that it seemed as if I’d been already reading it for years. I was bro…
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