Joan Didion was an American writer of novels, screenplays, and nonfiction. Her essays and journalism are central texts of twentieth-century American prose.
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After Life
1 Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. The question of self-pity.
The author visits a downtown courtroom and Los Angeles County Fire Department headquarters during the hottest and driest time of the year for the desert city.
We tell ourselves stories in order to live. Didion's fractured account of the late 1960s — the Manson trial, rock bands, personal breakdown — as a portrait of a narrative that refused to cohere.
