Joan Didion's Notes From Her Former Selves

"I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not."

Joan Didion (1934-2021) has been much in the news lately. In a span of days, her archives at the New York Public Library opened to the public and a posthumous collection of her notes from meetings with her psychiatrist were released as Notes to John. I, of course, have thoughts on this publication—but I’ll get to them in this week’s post script because …