It's really not a good interview, but it's the first one that came up on YouTube, and the books talked about are the good ones, and the lines the interviewer quotes are good ones (with close-ups of the paragraphs! SWOON!), and after 11:50 minutes of stilted, hilarious example upon stilted, hilarious example of why great writers should never do television—seriously, just read the essays—the interviewer LITERALLY says: "Joan Didion is going to be with us for three hours today."

If you listen closely—even though she's not onscreen—you can hear Joan Didion's heart stop.