"As new generations of artists and tastemakers grow hungrier for voices from worlds where mothers do not give teas and closets are not full of organdy tablecloths on long rollers, it's easy to imagine a writer of Didion's tastes and sensibility being called out in the blogosphere and in social media as fundamentally gifted yet fundamentally 'problematic' (to use a term of the moment that Didion might have great fun with) in her politics and tone. For all her brilliance, she might be deemed too haughty to tolerate, the ultimate white girl.
"But that would be both reductive and a total missing of the point."
Meghan Daum in The Atlantic reviews Tracy Daugherty's The Last Love Song.
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