Fire or Earthquake
Thomas Powers: Joan Didion’s Gaze, 3 November 2022
Let Me Tell You What I Mean: A New Collection of Essays
by Joan Didion.
Fourth Estate, 149 pp., £8.99, January 2022,978 0 00 845178 3 Show More
by Joan Didion.
Fourth Estate, 149 pp., £8.99, January 2022,
“... small, five foot one and three-quarter inches tall, which she fudged on her California driver’s licence as five two. She weighed nothing. Somewhere there must be a photograph of her beaming with delight but I’ve never seen it. With age, her neck thinned. Her arms were like birds’ legs. Her face shrank tight in lines and folds, creases deepening around ... ”