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Looking for Joan Didion: Norman Mailer's Opposite

Chicago Tribune, 28 December 2021 (op-ed); transcribed from the editor-supplied clipping (chicagotribune.com)

This is the full text of J. Michael Lennon’s “Looking for Joan Didion: Norman Mailer’s Opposite,” published as a Chicago Tribune op-ed on 28 December 2021, five days after Didion’s death. The same essay also appeared in The Mailer Review 15.1 (2021), p. 23. Rights to the article are reserved — see the frontmatter rights-note. See the Work page: Looking for Joan Didion: Norman Mailer’s Opposite.

J. Michael Lennon

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Work: Looking for Joan Didion: Norman Mailer's Opposite
Source: Chicago Tribune, 28 December 2021 (op-ed); transcribed from the editor-supplied clipping (chicagotribune.com)
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