The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir

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“This is an exquisitely written memoir from the man who assisted Joan Didion in the last years of her life. It is a testament to the joy and richness of unusual friendships—at the time they got to know each other, she was in her late 70s and an icon in the literary world and he was a young writer just out of school. I fell under the spell of Leadbeater’s writing.”