Play it as it lays

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Play It as It Lays is a novel written by Joan Didion, first published by Farrar Straus & Giroux in 1970 with a book jacket designed by Janet Halverson. Bantam’s paperback edition followed in July 1971. The uncredited designer adopted the snake from Halverson’s design, but

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“I know what ‘nothing’ means, and keep on playing.” — Joan Didion, Play It as It Lays

It has suddenly dawned on me that Joan Didion’s second novel, Play It as It Lays, was published in the summer heat of 1970 — half a century ago. So I looked back at two almost entirely opposite…

Joan Didion died today at her home in Manhattan, The New York Times reports. The legendary novelist and essayist was 87. According to Paul Bogaards, an executive at Knopf, Didion’s publisher, the c…