Our day exploring San Francisco began at ‘Salesforce Park,’ a futuristic rooftop green space in San Francisco’s downtown. And someone would say, ‘Joan makes me kind of nervous.’ And someone else would say, ‘Yeah, but we can’t fire her because it would look bad - she’s Joan Didion.’” “She would just be drinking black coffee and wearing a dress and leaning against the side of a conference room and just collecting checks. It makes me want to kill myself,” she muses. “That’s very flattering, but imagine Joan Didion a start-up. cover of her new book, Uncanny Valley: “Joan Didion at a startup.” Over Japanese macro bowls in one of the few remaining untrendy restaurants on San Francisco’s Valencia Street, the 32-year-old writer grits her teeth at the comparison. Or, as author Rebecca Solnit anointed Anna Wiener on the U.K. If you’re a young woman who writes nonfiction books, you will, at some point, be compared to Joan Didion.
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