Description: NEW YORK Times Bestseller From one of our most iconic and influential writers the award - winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking: a timeless collection that reveals what would become Joan Didion's subjects including the press politics California robber barons women and her own self - doubt. " Didion's remarkable five decades - long career as a journalist essayist novelist and screen writer has earned her a prominent place in the American literary canon and the twelve early pieces collected here underscore her singularity." O Magazine With a forward by Hilton Als these pieces from 1968 to 2000, never before gathered together offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary figure. They showcase Joan Didion's incisive reporting her empathetic gaze and her role as "an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time" (The New York Times Book Review). Here Didion touches on topics ranging from newspapers ("the problem is not so much whether one trusts the news as to whether one finds it") to the fantasy of San Simeon to not getting into Stanford. In " Why I Write " Didion ponders the act of writing: " I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking what I'm looking at what I see and what it means." From her admiration for Hemingway's sentences to her acknowledgment that Martha Stewart's story is one "that has historically encouraged women in this country even as it has threatened men " these essays are acutely and brilliantly observed. Each piece is classic Didion: incisive bemused and stunningly prescient.
Title: Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Barcode: 9780593312193
Publication Date: 1/25/2022
Series: Vintage International