But Didion is one of our few living writers who can truthfully be said to have achieved iconic status, one who counts both casual readers and esteemed authors among her devoted audience, and even her “B-Sides” ring with the authority of her distinctive voice. Granted, calling this a “new” book may be somewhat misleading, as it serves as more of an “odds and ends” release, compiling a series of never-before-collected short essays written between 19 one might think of this as a B-Side album, if you will. It’s right there in the title of this latest collection: Let Me Tell You What I Mean (149 pages Knopf)-would readers really expect Didion to do any less?
In times of crisis, we often look to the voice that is calm, rational, not prone to high emotion perhaps it’s fortuitous, then, that a year into the global pandemic we’re receiving a new book from Joan Didion, one of our most controlled stylists-a writer known for her careful, neutral tone, and one who can observe an incident and report her findings with a precision that often belies the extremities of her subject matter.
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