The White Album

“No more stylish list than the ultimate cool girl’s packing guide.”

“A perennial fave”

“I love Joan Didion’s writing. I know myself and I know my tastes and sensibilities would have had similar reactions to the zeitgeist of the 60s and 70s. I’m still in my chronological read through of all her work that I started last summer.This was a reread and it’s still excellent. Her take down of the pointless and tacky Reagan governors’ mansion is a national treasure.”

“The Best at her Best: Joan Didion cemented the legacy of the 60s in this tight and scrupulous volume of essays on culture and current events of the 1960s. A classic for a reason, Didion's astute prose and sharp observational style is the model for so much personal writing today.”

“intriguing in its simplicity. getting ready/packing is something i find challenging (ADHD), even day-to-day, so having a list such as this would probably be life-changing. I can attest to the power of costume—an outfit repeatedly turned to (or iterated) is now symbolic, is now armour, is now “yours”.”

“My Notes app is filled with iterations of this for every trip, none deleted so they can be reused for future trips of similar ilk.”

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”