16. NY Mag's feature of Joan Didion

"Reading Joan Didion on any subject is like tiptoeing across a just-frozen pond filled with beautiful sharks. You look down and pray the ice will hold. Meeting her is not a vastly different experience."The secret subject of Joan Didion’s work has always been her troubled daughter. Her wrenching new memoir tells us why.
“I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die.”Photo by Brigitte Lacombe