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Let me tell you what I mean / Joan Didion ; foreword by Hilton Als.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
814.54 DIDI	Adult Non Fiction		Campsie .	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9780593318485 (hardback)
Name	Didion, Joan author.
Uniform title	Essays. Selections
Title	Let me tell you what I mean / Joan Didion ; foreword by Hilton Als.
Published	New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
Published	©2021
Description	xxxv, 149 pages ; 20 cm
Summary	Here are six pieces written in 1968 from the "Points West" Saturday Evening Post column Joan Didion shared from 1964 to 1969 with her husband, John Gregory Dunne about: American newspapers; a session with Gamblers Anonymous; a visit to San Simeon; being rejected by Stanford; dropping in on Nancy Reagan, wife of the then-governor of California, while a TV crew filmed her at home; and an evening at the annual reunion of WWII veterans from the 101st Airborne Association at the Stardust Hotel in Las Vegas. Here too is a 1976 piece from the New York Times magazine on "Why I Write"; a piece about short stories from New West in 1978; and from The New Yorker, a piece on Hemingway from 1998, and on Martha Stewart from 2000. Each one is classic Didion: incisive, bemused, and stunningly prescient.
Subjects	Didion, Joan
	Novelists, American -- 20th century
	American essays -- 21st century
Genre	Essays
Other Names	Als, Hilton writer of foreword.
Links to Related Works	Subject References: American essays -- 21st century . Didion, Joan . Essays . Novelists, American -- 20th century . See Also: Australian essays . Authors: Als, Hilton . Didion, Joan .