![]() ![]() ![]() She intuited the fragmentation that would breed an internet world, and she sensed danger in the shallow myth-making of celebrity journalism. She brought new eyes to the American scene, whether charting the disconnect between traditional and hippie media – in the book’s opener, “Alicia and the Underground Press” – or with piercing observations of boldfaced names including Ernest Hemingway, Nancy Reagan and Martha Stewart. Slim and elegant as Didion’s public persona remains at age 86, the book traces her journey and development as a writer of magisterial (a word she would never use) command and finely measured style. Didion’s latest volume, “Let Me Tell You What I Mean” (Knopf, 192 pp., ★★★★ out of four), makes that case easily with a dozen previously uncollected pieces from 1968 to 2000. Thompson, but the lower-key voice of Joan Didion has outlasted, and outperformed, those swaggering peers. The tide of “New Journalism” that flooded the late 1960s and ’70s may have been dominated by the exclamation marks, manic italics and machismo of Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, or Hunter S. Watch Video: Priyanka Chopra Jonas fought for involvement in 'The White Tiger' ![]()
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