The Santa Ana by Joan Didion | NationofChange
1 day ago · The winds shows us how close to the edge we are. — Joan Didion, The Santa Ana (“Los Angeles Notebook”/Slouching Towards Bethlehem), The Saturday Evening Post, 1965. To follow CAL FIRE and learn earn more about the fires including evacuations and resources for those affected, click here.
The Santa Ana, which is named for one of the canyons it rushers through, is foehn wind, like the foehn of Austria and Switzerland and the hamsin of Israel. There are a number of persistent malevolent winds, perhaps the best know of which are the mistral of France and the Mediterranean sirocco, but a foehn wind has distinct
The Santa Ana winds and the literature of Los Angeles
May 14, 2014 · In her essay “Los Angeles Notebook,” Joan Didion characterizes it as one of “a number of persistent malevolent winds … a foehn wind, like the foehn of Austria and Switzerland and the hamsin...
“The Santa Ana” by Joan Didion – Allison McCabe
May 6, 2012 · What it means is that tonight a Santa Ana will begin to blow, a hot wind from the northeast whining down through the Cajon and San Gorgonio Passes, blowing up sand storms out along Route 66, drying the hills and the nerves to flash point.
A passage by Joan Didion about California’s Santa Ana winds from her essay “Los Angeles Notebook.” There is something uneasy in the Los Angeles air this afternoon, some unnatural stillness, some tension. What it means is that tonight a Santa Ana will begin to blow, a hot wind from the northeast whining down through the Cajon and San
The Setting and the Story: Joan Didion’s “The Santa Ana”
May 25, 2015 · She draws on history, folklore, and science to describe the Santa Ana, comparing them to the foehn winds of Austria and Switzerland, the hamsin of Israel, and other “persistent, malevolent winds.” During such winds, she argues, crime increases, depression deepens, and everything that’s bad in Los Angeles gets worse.
On Edge: The Santa Ana Winds in Literature
Oct 25, 2017 · “Los Angeles Notebook” in Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion. “ [T]he violence and the unpredictability of the Santa Ana affect the entire quality of life in Los Angeles, accentuate its impermanence, its unreliability. The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.”