After Henry Miller Madeline brave and resourceful

brave and resourceful

and illuminating…

ceremonies and rites

this collection is a coda to Simon's acclaimed Pike in the Basement

or deepest parts of the oceans

After Henry Miller Madeline brave and resourcefulNATIONAL BESTSELLER Didion's "reportorial pieces afford the pleasures of literature. She is an expert geographer of the landscape of American public culture" (The New York Times Book Review). Here, the National Book Awardwinning author of The Year of Magical Thinking covers ground from Washington to Los Angeles, from a TV producer's gargantuan "manor" to the racial battlefields of New York's criminal courts. At each stop she uncovers the mythic