PositiveLos Angeles Review of BooksJust like Highsmith’s writing, which always flirted with the line between literature and entertainment, the self that emerges from her diaries is slippery ... Highsmith’s editor Anna von Planta, in her introduction to the published notebooks, cautions readers that the real Highsmith is only to be found in her diaries ... But the truths of Highsmith’s diaries have been, like those of Sydney’s journal, transfigured by the fictions that preceded them. Her public self is at the mercy of the currents of popular culture.
