‘What was that book featured on the radio the other day?’
The Radio 4 Book of the Week, split into 5 episodes, is broadcast each morning at 9.45am.
Starting Monday 6th February 2023, Laurel Lefkow reads from Joan Didion’s collection of essays in ‘Let Me Tell You What I Know’
Twelve early pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of Joan Didion.
Mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five-decade career, the wide-ranging pieces in this collection include Didion writing about a Gamblers Anonymous meeting, a visit to San Simeon, and a reunion of WWII veterans in Las Vegas, and about topics ranging from Nancy Reagan to Robert Mapplethorpe to Martha Stewart.
Here are subjects Didion has long written about – the press, politics, California robber baronsac, women, the act of writing, and her own self-doubt. Each piece is classic Didion: incisive and, in new light, stunningly prescient.
Copies of Joan Didion’s book are available from Coles HERE or through clicking the image below:
