70 Year Magazine Archive

The Way We Live Now

by Joan Didion

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When did music come this way?

I think all Americans who have wandered from their birthplace—and that includes most of my generation carry with them a guilty feeling often disguised as ‘nostalgia.’ They wouldn’t dream of returning to roam in the house where they were born (even if it hasn’t been torn down) but they sometimes feel that life would have been simpler’ if they had. T. E. Matthews

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