Joan Didion on Driving as Secular Worship and Self-Transcendence

Maria Popova, Brain Pickings, January 16, 2015

This article’s author discusses The White Album, an essay collection about California’s freeway system, by Joan Didion, who championed driving as more-than-driving, as an experience more transcendent than simply propelling a vehicle over pavement and more present than mindlessly getting from point A to point B. […read more]