![]() ![]() ![]() Now, as the world mourns her death, we look to her own words for both guidance and solace. Crucially, Didion also explored the language we use to process loss, and the limitations of that language. In the foreword of the last book she published before her death, Let Me Tell You What I Mean, writer Hilton Als described Didion as “a carver of words in the granite of the specific.” She both dissected the ordinariness of the everyday for its complexities, and broke down the most foreign of situations into familiar, accessible parts. She was a prolific storyteller who ushered in a new style of journalism, combining research and lyrical imagery with cutting moments of humor. 23 at 87, was the author of five novels, several works of nonfiction including Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album, screenplays and more. “This is a case in which I need whatever it is I think or believe to be penetrable, if only for myself.”ĭidion, who died on Dec. “This is a case in which I need more than words to find the meaning,” she wrote in her 2005 memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking. But in the aftermath of her husband’s fatal heart attack in 2003, her relationship with words changed. ![]() She was known for them: her cool, exacting prose her sentences, smooth and spare. Joan Didion made sense of the world through words. ![]()
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