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After Henry, by Joan Didion (Simon & Schuster, 319 pp., $22)

MORE and more during the 1980s, Joan Didion has preferred to stay home and read the newspaper. This is not to say the famous journalist has become a hermit. During the past decade she has kept homes in two cities—New York and Los Angeles—plus a vacation place in Hawaii. Also, rather than the other way around, famous people now pay calls on her. During the recent primary here in New York, Jerry Brown stayed not in a hotel, but with Joan Didion. Nor—again, to be fair—did all her information come from newspapers. She watched TV, too.

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David Klinghoffer

David Klinghoffer, a former literary editor at NR, is a senior fellow at Discovery Institute and co-author of The Gift of Rest: Rediscovering the Beauty of the Sabbath, and other books.

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After Henry, by Joan Didion (Simon & Schuster, 319 pp., $22)

MORE and more during the 1980s, Joan Didion has preferred to stay home and read the newspaper. This is not to say the famous journalist has become a hermit. During the past decade she has kept homes in two cities—New York and Los Angeles—plus a vacation place in Hawaii. Also, rather than the other way around, famous people now pay calls on her. During the recent primary here in New York, Jerry Brown stayed not in a hotel, but with Joan Didion. Nor—again, to be fair—did all her information come from newspapers. She watched TV, too.

About the Author

David Klinghoffer

David Klinghoffer, a former literary editor at NR, is a senior fellow at Discovery Institute and co-author of The Gift of Rest: Rediscovering the Beauty of the Sabbath, and other books.