Scott Saul
@scottsaul.bsky.social
Often can be found reading, writing, professing (@ UC Berkeley), and listening to music. Author, Becoming Richard Pryor.
Did you know Joan Didion hated cops — that she once declared herself a "cop hater"?
I wrote a piece that recovers this piece she buried and reflects on how, in *The White Album*, Didion pointedly revised her experience of the 1960s for the late-70s moment. www.dispatchesmag.com/stories/reap...
I wrote a piece that recovers this piece she buried and reflects on how, in *The White Album*, Didion pointedly revised her experience of the 1960s for the late-70s moment. www.dispatchesmag.com/stories/reap...
Reappraisal: Joan Didion | Dispatches Magazine
“‘On Becoming a Cop Hater’ remains the only one of Didion’s Saturday Evening Post columns never republished in her essay collections. Why did she choose to shed it?” —Scott Saul
www.dispatchesmag.com
December 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Did you know Joan Didion hated cops — that she once declared herself a "cop hater"?
I wrote a piece that recovers this piece she buried and reflects on how, in *The White Album*, Didion pointedly revised her experience of the 1960s for the late-70s moment. www.dispatchesmag.com/stories/reap...
I wrote a piece that recovers this piece she buried and reflects on how, in *The White Album*, Didion pointedly revised her experience of the 1960s for the late-70s moment. www.dispatchesmag.com/stories/reap...