![]() ![]() A few weeks later, her “Points West” was about wandering Newport, Rhode Island. Didion’s first effort was a dispatch from her parents’ house. The Post was struggling to stay afloat (it went under two years later), and that chaos let the new columnists shimmy unorthodox ideas past their desperate editors. Didion wrote one column about touring Alcatraz, another on the general secretary of a small Marxist-Leninist group. ![]() The column, called “Points West,” entailed their visiting a place of West Coast interest, interviewing a few people or no people, and composing a dispatch. The Post paid them well, and Didion and Dunne each had to file one piece a month. The space they had to fill was neither long nor short-about twelve hundred words, a gallop larger than the Comment that opens this magazine. ![]() In the spring of 1967, Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, freelance writers married to each other and living in Los Angeles, were engaged to write a regular column for the Saturday Evening Post. ![]()
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