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Mar 12, 2026, 12:45 pm93 ptsTo me, the best first sentence of any piece of journalism is the one in Joan Didion’s 1987 book, Miami, which begins like this: “Havana vanities come to dust in Miami.” I love that sentence and that propulsive first chapter so much that I once sat down to try to figure out how she did it. I…
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