12/05/2025
“The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one.” Didion's compulsive, precise gaze defined an era's disquiet. How her style became a way of seeing.
She saw through America like few others, and wrote it down with the unblinking gaze of a realist and the style of a poet sharpened by loss. Joan Didion wrote with the precision of a scalpel and the detachment of someone already mourning what she described. In her sentences, clarity was a weapon, and...