The iconic American writer behind }The White Album{ provides two stories from her 1970s notebooks, one of which depicts in immersive detail a road trip through a changing American South, the other a journalistic assignment in San Francisco that causes Didion to reflect on her own Californian roots From one of the most important chroniclers of our time, come two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks – writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer.