Joan Didion: In El Salvador for the New York Review of Books

Oct 19, 1998

This excerpt from an event commemorating the 35th anniversary of the New York Review of Books in 1998 features Joan Didion reading part of her series of reports on El Salvador, originally published in the New York Review of Books in 1982.

Backstage at 92Y
Standing, L to R: Robert Silvers, Susan Sontag, Joan Didion, Darryl Pinckney, Jonathan Miller, James Fenton, Rea Hederman, Alma Guillermoprieto
Seated, L to R: Elizabeth Hardwick, Jason Epstein

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