Another great collection of her articles and essays; to me, not as great as "Slouching Towards Bethlehem," but still 5-star writing. I may be biased towards "Slouching" since it was my first Didion and it blew me away. One of the most captivating elements of her writing has always been how she writes from her own point of view, inserting herself into these articles. Because of this element, these glimpses into her personal life and marriage and family in the 50s and 60s form a real history to what I've read in her recent work "The Year of Magical Thinking" about the death of her husband, as well as elements of her fiction novels (from "Play It As it Lays" - the essay on Hollywood - to "A Book of Common Prayer - the essay on Bogota).