by
Katie Roiphe
[...] Didion uses ironic, or what could be more accurately called skeptical, quotation marks fanatically and constantly. They highlight the fact that the journalist is not just telling a story, she is taking it apart; that the words we use are suspect, revelatory.
I'm a little bit skeptical myself about her analysis of Didion's style (a lot of these so-called elements of her style just seem like fairly common stylistic features) but this passage is interesting