Showing posts with label Memory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Memory. Show all posts

Tuesday, 22 September 2026

Joan Didion — What if the person the writer is selling out is herself?

What happens when a writer turns the camera on herself? Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking asks whether we can trust our own memories.
Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking and what happens when the writer turns the camera on herself

We've been here before. In fact, Joan Didion is where much of this journey began.

In Slouching Towards Bethlehem, she gave us the sentence that has followed us through almost every writer we've encountered since: “Writers are always selling somebody out.”