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"Alicia and the Underground Press," "Getting Serenity," "A Trip to Xanadu"

· The following version of this story was used to create this lesson plan: Didion, Joan. Let Me Tell You What I Mean. Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 2021.

· “Alicia and the Underground Press” begins on page 20.

· This essay begins by listing the newspapers that Didion feels does not leave her “in the grip of a profound physical conviction that the oxygen has been cut off from [her] brain tissue” (20).

· These newspapers are: The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Free Press, The Los Angeles Open City, and the East Village Other.

· Didion states that what these newspapers have that others do not is the ability to “get through” (20) to the reader rather than speaking indirectly.

· The newspapers Didion listed as well as The Berkley Barb avoid what Didion refers to as “fictitious ‘objectivity’” (20).

· Objectivity, says Didion, cannot truly...

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