Didion - Goodbye to All That
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JOAN DIDION Joan Didion (1934- ) has been a major figure in the revival of the con temporary American essay. Her pieces began appearing in mass magazines in the sixties, and she was a key practitioner of that decade's New Journalism, which combined reportage with personal, subjective disclosure. A novelist (Play It as It Lays, A Book of Common Prayer) as well as an essayist, Didion has shown an uncanny ability to create atmosphere on the page. Like Raymond Chandler, she captured, through telling detail, the sun-desolate, alienated side of suburban California's…
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