Writing a book about Joan Didion is a good way to discover that many people love her but far fewer people have read much of her work. In the five years since I started working on my book We Tell Ourselves Stories, I’ve surprised a lot of her admirers with things they didn’t expect: her conservative leanings, her John Wayne adoration, her political-commentary career, the fact that “We tell ourselves stories” is not meant as an inspirational slogan.
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