Joan Didion Knew What Hollywood Would Become

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  I'm Shiloh Brooks.

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  I'm a professor and CEO, and I believe reading good books makes us better men.

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  Today, I'm sitting down with Peter Savodnik.

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  Peter is an editor at the Free Press.

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  Joan Didion's Play It As It Lays, a novel published in 1970, changed Peter's life.

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  Today, I'm asking him why.

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  This is Old School.

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  Peter Savodnik, welcome to Old School.

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  Thank you so much for having me, Sharlow.

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  You chose a book I'd never read and frankly that I loved, Joan Didion's Play It As It Lays.

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  Tell me a little bit about who Joan Didion was.

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  I know she was a journalist and a number of other things, a novelist obviously, but so were you.

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  So who was she and what drew you to her work?

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  So,

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  Didion was a great journalist and is best known for her journalism as one of the kind of founding voices of the new journalism of the 60s and 70s.

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  I think played as it lays, her novel is wonderful and a standout,

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  but the journalism and her insightfulness and ability to translate very complicated ideas,

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  sort of political textures into sort of a conversation.

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  that was accessible to a very wide audience is remarkable.

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  She wrote novels, but she wrote nonfiction, she wrote essays,

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