| 8. The complete works of Joan Didion | 10 Things in the Slow and Steady Wins the Race Time Capsule for 2021
The upside-down, prelude to a recovery of a year for 2020 known as 2021 made this particular time capsule list a more introspective one as we continue to countdown and share with you some of the items and ideas we would put in our time capsule. For us they straddle the very specific space of the timely with the timeless; sometimes sublimely anachronistic, fundamentally classic, and are reflective of a value system we hold true to.
“You get the sense that it’s possible simply to go through life noticing things and writing them down and that this is OK, it’s worth doing. That the seemingly insignificant things that most of us spend our days noticing are really significant, have meaning, and tell us something.” — The Paris Review interview (2006).
Fiction
- Run, River (1963)
- Play It as It Lays (1970)
- A Book of Common Prayer (1977)
- Democracy (1984)
- The Last Thing He Wanted (1996)
Nonfiction
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968)
- The White Album (1979)
- Salvador (1983)
- Miami (1987)
- After Henry (1992)
- Political Fictions (2001)
- Where I Was From (2003)
- Fixed Ideas: America Since 9.11 (2003; preface by Frank Rich)[citation needed]
- Vintage Didion (2004; selected excerpts of previous works)[citation needed]
- The Year of Magical Thinking (2005)
- We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction (2006; includes her first seven volumes of nonfiction)
- Blue Nights (2011) ISBN 9780307267672
- South and West: From a Notebook (2017) ISBN 9781524732790
- Let Me Tell You What I Mean (2021)[52]
Screenplays
- The Panic in Needle Park (1971) (with John Gregory Dunne and based on the novel by James Mills)[53]
- Play It as It Lays (1972) (with John Gregory Dunne and based on her novel)[54]
- A Star Is Born (1976) (with John Gregory Dunne)[55]
- True Confessions (1981) (with John Gregory Dunne and based on his novel)[56]
- Up Close & Personal (1996) (with John Gregory Dunne)[57]
- As it Happens (2012) (with Todd Field)[58]
Plays
- The Year of Magical Thinking (2007) (based on her book)
