![]() ![]() to see afresh the writer who preceded the icon, the one who stood outside the culture, looking in.” -Jessica Ferri, The Los Angeles Timesįrom one of our most iconic and influential writers: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women, and her own self-doubt. “In our own chaotic era, with the center again failing to hold, offer an opportunity. ![]() Didion is the model and exemplar, but she’s also just the best writer there is at melding the personal and the political, and bundling all the lit match-sticks of modern life into journalistic form." -Christopher Bollen, Interview Magazine But she has also been the voice of those who’ve followed-you can hear her concision her taste in the spare, shimmery detail her lean, muscular sentences and her dogged questioning of perceived truths. "Unquestionably, Joan Didion has been the voice of a generation. spotlights moments in Didion’s progression as wordsmith and reporter alongside moments in culture.” - TIME “Didion is a chronicler of our world, a writer who dissolves shared delusions to present cold reality with style. ![]()
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