What to Write This Week(end)

Inspired by Joan Didion and a little town you've (probably) never heard of

Hello, friends. Because the “What to Write This Week” post, which usually goes out on Monday or Tuesday, is still sitting in my drafts folder half-finished (or, more optimistically, half-done), I offer you “What to Write This Weekend.”

Recently, while reading Joan Didion’s South and West: From a Notebook, I discovered that Didion, that great chronicler o…