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The Curse of Cool

By Joshua Wolf Shenk, Illustration by Kelsey Dake

Joan Didion’s Elusive Los Angeles

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Issue: Spring 2020 / Volume 96/1

Published: March 2, 2020

Joshua Wolf Shenk

Joshua Wolf Shenk is an essayist and editor-in-chief of the Believer magazine. His essays have appeared in the Atlantic, Harper’s, the New Yorker, Slate, and River Teeth Journal, among many others. His mainstage Moth story “You Can Come Back” appears in the book Occasional Magic: True Stories...

Kelsey Dake

Kelsey Dake is an artist whose work has been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, New York magazine, and Esquire, among other publications.

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