#TodayILearned that #JoanDidion wanted her first LIFE assignment to be on the My Lai massacre, but the magazine insisted on sending a man and told her to do a gentle piece on married life, so she wrote an explicit account of her upcoming divorce. https://www.messynessychic.com/2022/09/07/6-ways-to-introduce-joan-didion-to-the-next-generation/