Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Joan Didion
Twelve early pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of Joan Didion.
drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five-decade career, the wide-ranging pieces in this collection include
writing about a Gamblers Anonymous meeting, a visit to San Simeon, and a reunion of WWII veterans in Las Vegas, and about topics ranging
Nancy Reagan to Robert Mapplethorpe to Martha Stewart. Here are subjects Didion has long written about –
press, politics, California robber barons, women, the act of writing, and her own self-doubt.
piece is classic Didion: incisive and, in new light, stunningly prescient.