We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live
Laila Lalami points to a nice review of Joan Didion's " We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live" by Sarah Kerr over at New York Review of Books.
Her early grasp of voice can make us forget that she was still a young writer hoping, working, willing herself to come into maturity, in fits and starts and in public. Precocious also in her professionalism, she produced through changing moods and circumstances and locales, rising as a freelancer to meet the demands of apple-and-orange magazine assignments. It is hard to explain, if you have never given it a shot, what a tricky thing this is to do.
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