The White Album (1979)

By Joan Didion

1968: A random collage of events“…an attack of vertigo and nausea doesn’t seem to me an inappropriate

response to the summer of 1968.” (Didion)

• Jan: Battle of Khe Sanh, Tet Offensive• Jan-August: Prague Spring• March 16: My Lai massacre• April 2: 2001: A Space Odyssey opens• April 4: MLK, Jr. assassinated• May: Paris student protests; widespread strikes• June 3: Andy Warhol shot, wounded• June 5: RFK assassinated• Nov. 14: Yale Uni admits women

“Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” (1966)by Joyce Carol Oates

“Las Meninas” (1656) Velázquez

“Lost in the Funhouse” (1968)by John Barth

Parmigianino, “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror” (1524)