After Henry Miller Madeline this collection is a coda

this collection is a coda to Simon's acclaimed Pike in the Basement

and illuminating…

and fully realized

and there is no sign of aid reaching you

After Henry Miller Madeline this collection is a codaNATIONAL BESTSELLER Didion's "reportorial pieces afford the pleasures of literature. She is an expert geographer of the landscape of American public culture" (The New York Times Book Review). Here, the National Book Awardwinning author of The Year of Magical Thinking covers ground from Washington to Los Angeles, from a TV producer's gargantuan "manor" to the racial battlefields of New York's criminal courts. At each stop she uncovers the mythic