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Episode 143 -- Joan Didion's California
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- In Bed With The Right
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- Jul 7, 2026
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- 2889
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Summary
It's Hot California Summer over here on In Bed with the Right ! For this first installment (of probably three), Moira and Adrian delve into the work of noted California-native and inveterate California-explainer Joan Didion, whose conservatism was a central part of our episode on San Francisco in the conservative imagination. The episode's focus is on Didion's 2003 book Where I Was From , a brilliant diagnosis of, and only intermittently self-aware display of, a particular California ideology. It's an ideology that continues to shape how the world views California, and how California views the world.