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We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live


We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live
Reflections on the literary influence of Joan Didion.
Art by Eleanor Curran.
February 22, 2021
My preschool years were spent in California, living atop a mountain covered by lush greenery and speckled with wild deer. The Terminator was Governor, Netflix was a small business that delivered DVDs, and strikingly unaware of the woes of the world, my greatest anxiety was of being eaten alive by the mountain lions that supposedly emerged in the dark of night. A ghostly version of California still reverberates through my bones, wraps my memories in a rose-tinted euphoria, and disguises itself as a lingering lilt masked by my now noticeably Australian accent. A place, seen through the eyes of a child, only half remembered. Everything was beautiful, golden and shimmering. ....

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Book World: Joan Didion's 'Let Me Tell You What I Mean' shows a writer ahead of her time


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Book World: Joan Didion s Let Me Tell You What I Mean shows a writer ahead of her time
Charles Arrowsmith, The Washington Post
Feb. 9, 2021
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By Joan Didion
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Joan Didion has been consecrated in her own lifetime. In the five decades since Slouching Towards Bethlehem, her work, particularly her nonfiction, has been widely celebrated. In 2013, President Barack Obama awarded her the National Humanities Medal. She was the subject, in 2017, of a Netflix documentary, The Center Will Not Hold. South and West, published the same year, showed that even her notes would sell. This April, the Library of America will release the second volume of its definitive edition of her work. What has fixed her in the collective imagination? ....

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