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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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