![]() ![]() “When I began writing these pages,” she confides, “I believed their subject to be children, the ones we have and the ones we wish we had…. There, she reflects on the death of her daughter, Quintana, and her own process of aging. Now 86, she has produced no substantial work since her memoir Blue Nights was published in 2011. ![]() ![]() This makes sense, for Didion is at the summing-up part of her career. In that regard, the book has more in common with South and West (2017), which brought together two unfinished pieces from the 1970s, than it does with the collections Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album, which remain among the most necessary of her works. Of the 12 essays gathered here, half come from the Points West column she and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, shared for the Saturday Evening Post from 1964 to 1969 the others appeared between 19. Like many retrospectives, Joan Didion’s Let Me Tell You What I Mean is something of a grab bag. ![]()
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