The release date for the English version of 'Let Me Tell You What I Mean' by
Joan Didion is Jan 2021. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
A timeless collection of primarily early works by one of our most famous and important writers, revealing the issues that would define Joan Didion's writings: women, the press, politics, California robber barons, and her own self-doubt.
These six articles, written in 1968, are taken from the "Points West" Saturday Evening Post column that Joan Didion and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, wrote about between 1964 and 1969. The topics covered included American newspapers, a meeting with Gamblers Anonymous, a trip to San Simeon, being turned down by Stanford, visiting Nancy Reagan, the then-governor of California, while a television crew was filming her at home, and an evening spent at the 101st Airborne Association's annual reunion held at the Stardust Hotel in Las Vegas. These include an article about "Why I Write" from the New York Times magazine in 1976, a 1978 piece about short stories from the New West, and two articles from The New Yorker from 2000 and 1998 about Martha Stewart and Hemingway. Every single one is quintessential Didion: sharp, perplexed, and amazingly prophetic.