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Joan Didion: What She Means - Hilton Als Berlin The art world is nowIn Joan Didion: What She Means, the writer and curator, Hilton Als, creates a mosaic that explores Didions life and work and the feeling each generates in her admirers, detractors and critics. Arranged chronologically, the book highlights Didions fascination with the two coasts that made her. As a Westerner transplanted to New York, Didion was able to look at her native land, its mores and fixed rules of behavior, with the loving and critical eyes of