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Joan Didion on March 29th, 2007, in New York City.

PS Picks: Michelle Dean’s ‘Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion’

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

Kristina Kutateli

PS Picks: Michelle Dean on Women in Literature

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

Ted Scheinman

Exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2013.

PS Picks: Geoff Dyer on the Photography of Garry Winogrand

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

Varun Nayar

Dispatches: The Secret to Enjoying the AWP Writing Conference

News and notes from Pacific Standard staff and contributors.

Ted Scheinman

President Barack Obama and Marilynne Robinson arrive for a visit to the State Library of Iowa during an unannounced stop on September 14th, 2015, in Des Moines, Iowa.

PS Picks: Conquering Cynicism in a Secular World With Marilynne Robinson

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

Ted Scheinman