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Slouching Towards Bethlehem is a 1968 collection of essays by Joan Didion and mainly describes her experiences in California during the 1960s. It takes its title from the poem “The Second Coming” by W.B. Yeats. The contents of this book are reprinted in Didion’s We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction (2006). The title essay describes Didion’s impressions of the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco during the neighborhood’s heyday as a countercultural center. In contrast to the more utopian image of the milieu promoted by counterculture sympathizers then and now, Didion offered a rather grim portrayal of the goings-on, including an encounter with a pre-school age child who was given LSD by her parents. In her preface to the book Didion writes,... Read on...