Let Me Tell You What I Mean
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From one of our most iconic and influential writers, the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including…
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Joan Didion never settles. She pushes ideas and words. The reader works to keep up with Didion’s storytelling.
Let Me Tell You What I Mean is a posthumously published set of 12 short essays – actually literary journalism – by the great American writer Joan Didion.
The pieces are taken from across the whole of her working life, though concentrated on the early years when she was a prolific columnist. They are united by an interest in the craft of writing itself.
That interest is, of course, not confined to just these essays; it’s not confined to the elegance with which they speak straight off the page, either. But this conscious, deliberative taking seriously of what we all…
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