Let Me Tell You What I Mean

Name: Let Me Tell You What I Mean
ISBN: 9780593318485

Joan Didion

2021·192 pages·Nonfiction

Biography Literary Fiction

classics essays memoir short stories

A collection of mostly early pieces that reveal Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women, and her own self-doubt. It includes six pieces from 1968 from the "Points West" column about American newspapers, a session with Gamblers Anonymous, a visit to San Simeon, being rejected by Stanford, dropping in on Nancy Reagan, and an evening at a WWII veterans reunion. Also included are a 1976 piece on "Why I Write," a 1978 piece about short stories, and pieces on Hemingway from 1998 and Martha Stewart from 2000.

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