I Write to Find Out What I Am Thinking

This hardcover omnibus edition of Didion’s collected non-fiction contains her final four books: ‘Blue Nights’, ‘South and West’, ‘Let Me Tell You What I Mean’, and her most famous work, ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’. In her essay ‘Why I Write’ (included in this volume), Joan Didion explained what lies behind her iconic non-fiction writing: ‘I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means.’ Across her long and prolific career, readers have been blessed time and again by her brilliance as a prose stylist and a social commentator.