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LET ME TELL YOU WHAT I MEAN - JOAN DIDION KARTO...

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.

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