Let me tell you what i mean - joan didion

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 Didions subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women, and her own self-doubt.

Didions 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 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 Didions 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 Im thinking, what Im looking at, what I see and what it means.

From her admiration for Hemingways sentences to her acknowledgment that Martha Stewarts 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.