“But to ‘Political Fictions,’ besides her black conceit, her sonar ear, her radar eye and her ice pick/laser beam/night-scope sniper prose, she brings Tiger Ops assets of temperament.” - John Leonard ‘ Where I Was From’ (2003) It was interesting to wonder what sort of fiction Didion’s beautiful writerly skills would now make of her clear-eyed and anguished perception of our time.” - Christopher Lehmann-Hauptĭidion’s “intelligence is as honed as ever her voice has its familiar ring, and her vision is ice-water clear.” - Hendrik Hertzberg ‘ Political Fictions’ (2001) Since her first one, ‘Run River,’ she has gathered a quiet following with her nonfiction pieces that were collected under the title ‘Slouching Towards Bethlehem’ and published to critical enthusiasm in 1968. “A new novel by Joan Didion is something of an event. And it is quite impossible to deny the artistic brilliance of her reportage.” - Christopher Lehmann-Haupt ‘ Miami’ (1987) “It is difficult to deny that everything she writes grows out of close observation of the social and political landscape of El Salvador. Add to these her highly vulnerable sense of herself, and the result is a voice like no other in contemporary journalism.” - Robert Towers ‘ Salvador’ (1983) “All of the essays - even the slightest - manifest not only her intelligence, but an instinct for details that continue to emit pulsations in the reader’s memory and a style that is spare, subtly musical in its phrasing and exact.
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