“The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.” — Joan Didion There’s always been a black hole in the center of the California sunlight, and the Santa Ana winds blow through it. It’s ...

Santa Ana winds usually occur between September and May, ... For Joan Didion, they blew "sandstorms out along Route 66, drying the hills and nerves to flash point." nro/aha.

Experience Joan Didion’s Los Angeles — her iconic ... Didion’s name became an echo on social media timelines as Angelenos shared and reshared her famous quotes about the Santa Ana winds. ...

It was Joan Didion in her 1967 essay, Los Angeles Notebook, who observed that the onset of a Santa Ana wind event is a mood, a queasy, premonitory pit in the stomach. The winds – the high ...

First came the Joan Didion quotes about the fire-stoking Santa Ana winds (“I recall being told, when I first moved to Los Angeles and was living on an isolated beach, that the Indians would ...

Author Joan Didion introduced many Americans to the famous winds in her 1969 essay “The Santa Anas.” “It is hard for people ...

“The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.” — Joan Didion There’s always been a black hole in the center of the California sunlight, and the Santa Ana winds blow through it. It’s ...

“The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.” – Joan Didion. There’s always been a black hole in the center of the California sunlight, and the Santa Ana winds blow through it.