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Will Joan Didion’s center hold?
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November 2, 2017July 12, 2022Culture, Reviews

Will Joan Didion’s center hold?

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In the last scene of her film memoir, the camera centers on Joan Didion’s hands: gnarled, veined, gripping the hands of her friend as she once held the pen that made her one of the master craftsmen of fiction and nonfiction since the 1960s.  In “The Center Will Not Hold,” Didion holds the reins. The...