Let Me Tell You What I Mean

"This latest Joan Didion collection includes stories on addiction, alternative media, not getting into a college and the rise of Martha Stewart. Although some of these pieces are half a century old, Didion’s prose crackles with immediacy and precision. Generations of readers have turned to her iconic Slouching Toward Bethlehem and The White Album to wrestle with the atomization of culture. Didion’s theme continues to be the widening gyre and a center that cannot hold."