“We have kind of evolved into a society where grieving is totally hidden. It doesn’t take place in our family. It takes place not at all.” -JOAN DIDION

 “I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests.”

“We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five,” she wrote. “We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the ‘ideas’ with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.”

Didion prided herself on being an outsider, more comfortable with gas station attendants than with celebrities.  

Below is a list of published books, in reverse chronological order, by the late author:

• “Let Me Tell You What I Mean,” 2021, Alfred A. Knopf.
  
• “South and West: From a Notebook,” 2017, Alfred A. Knopf.
• “Blue Nights,” 2011, Alfred A. Knopf.
• “We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction,” 2006, Alfred A. Knopf.
• “The Year of Magical Thinking,” 2005, Alfred A. Knopf.
• “Where I Was From,” 2003, Alfred A. Knopf.
• “Political Fictions,” 2001, Alfred A. Knopf.
• “The Last Thing He Wanted,” 1996, Alfred A. Knopf.
• “After Henry,” 1992, Simon & Schuster.
• “Miami,” 1987, Simon & Schuster.
• “Democracy,” 1984, Simon & Schuster.
• “The White Album,” 1979, Simon & Schuster.
• “The Book of Common Prayer,” 1977, Simon & Schuster.
• “Play it As It Lays,” 1970, Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
• “Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” 1968, Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
• “Run River,” 1961, Astor-Honor Inc.

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