Notes to John

Praise for Notes to John: 'Full of direct quotations and written with the immediacy of fresh recollection … Readers of her memoirs will recognize how these notes inform those final books – the striving to understand and the sense of futility that comes with it' New Yorker Praise for Joan Didion: ‘To read Joan Didion is to understand what writing, at its most exquisitely controlled, can do’ Vogue ‘One of the most celebrated American writers of her generation … one of our sharpest and most respected observers of American politics and culture’ Barak Obama ‘A chronicler of our world’ TIME 'A precise, human and meticulously truthful writer' Zadie Smith 'Our quintessential essayist' LA Times 'This is the miracle of Joan Didion, that she attests to the disorder and dismay of life with absolute elegance and clarity, a vision of bedlam carved out of pearl' Olivia Laing, Sunday Times