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The Pending Energy Crisis and Other Girly Things
Forty-three years ago, my favorite writer published an essay on Woody Allen’s late- ‘70s oeuvre titled, “Letter From Manhattan”. In it, Joan Didion described a body of work whose popularity she professed to find “interesting, and rather astonishing.” She went on to say that Allen’s characters possess “the false and desperate knowingness of the smartest…