I’ve been reading Joan Didion. I heard some of her writings on a radio programme hosted by Laura Barton about American road trips. So I bought South and West. It’s a small book. Thin. I like that. She writes like that too, using short, terse sentences. But it is her capturing and relaying of speech that most thrills me. And it does. Does she get scared about writing too? Does she still write? Is she still living?
