The Michigan Daily Books Beat presents Author Highlights, a series in which Daily Books Writers gather to close-read and opine on one or more texts written by the same author. In this segment of ...

Didion was a prolific writer of stylish essays, novels, screenplays and memoirs. Here is a sample of some of her works, as reviewed in The New York Times. Didion’s “first collection of nonfiction ...

Joan Didion's 1968 essay collection, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, was rightfully praised as a "devastating depiction of the aimless lives of the disaffected and incoherent young" during a time of ...