Rereading Joan Didion, “you find her astringency relentless, undimmed by age,” Zadie Smith writes. “Maybe this is why it remains easier to look at pictures of Didion than to read her. The look is undoubtedly a vibe. But the reading is a dissection.” Joan Didion and the Opposite of Magical Thinking You didn’t have to agree with her, but you had to submit to her sentences.

 Rereading Joan Didion, “you find her astringency relentless, undimmed by age,” Zadie Smith writes. “Maybe this is why it remains easier to look at pictures of Didion than to read her. The look is undoubtedly a vibe. But the reading is a dissection.”

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Joan Didion and the Opposite of Magical Thinking

You didn’t have to agree with her, but you had to submit to her sentences.