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The Final Texas Resting Place of Joan Didion’s Chair
Digital subscribers can listen to this article. Subscribe today for unlimited access to Texas Monthly. Already a subscriber? Log in. Ryan Holiday acknowledges that his penchant for bidding on historically significant treasures has, at times, gotten out of hand. The best-selling author and The Daily Stoic podcast host is roosting among his loot in his office above the Painted Porch Bookshop, the store he opened in 2021 in Bastrop, where he lives. He looks guiltily at a set of doorjambs encased in glass on one wall that were salvaged from the White House when President Truman gutted it for renovation. He loves objects that are “historical wormholes,” he says—things that make him “suddenly feel connected to the past”—but the jambs, he recognizes, may have been excessive.…The post The Final Texas Resting Place of Joan Didion’s Chair appeared first on Texas Monthly.