I thought Joan Didion’s essay would ruin my life. But something else happened A police officer looks at the charred Volkswagen Beetle in which Gordon E. Miller was found dead on Oct. 8, 1964, in ...

A new collection of old Didion essays, called "Let Me Tell You What I Mean," has been published. Here's where to rediscover the essay "Why I Write," a spark of earnest hope behind the writer's ...

A new collection of old Didion essays, called "Let Me Tell You What I Mean," has been published. Here's where to rediscover the essay "Why I Write," a spark of earnest hope behind the writer's ...

Forty plus years later, this essay still inspires much debate. Joan Didion writing about the women’s movement may seem like pure fan service today, but in 1972 this was actually a contentious essay.

Joan Didion’s best books, from essays to fiction. Here, we round up the imperative reads by the late iconic author, who died Thursday at the age of 87. Dec. 23, 2021, 2:54 PM EST.

"Let Me Tell You What I Mean," a newly gathered collection of 12 essays, organized from 1968 to 2000, affirms Joan Didion's mastery of the form.

Books & the Arts / Notes to John, posthumously published journal entries chronicling Didion’s therapy sessions, is a peek ...

Reading Notes to John, a new and much-discussed posthumous selection of Joan Didion’s writing, I thought over and over of ...

The Joan Didion many people know is constructed from a few artifacts the real writer left behind when she died in 2021.There’s her much-imitated (and sometimes parodied) 1967 essay “Goodbye to ...

Joan Didion had died at the age of 87, her publisher A.A. Knopf has confirmed. ... Didion continued to publish essays in the 1990s and early 2000s, before the death of her husband in 2003.

Joan Didion was a bit of a goth. Beginning with her first short story about death in the desert, she was drawn to dark subjects: cannibals, bikers, Jim Morrison, Dick Cheney. Her favorite house ...

Joan Didion's personal belongings are being sold in one of the most coveted estate sales of the year. ... Didion, who was born in 1934, wrote essays, fiction and movie scripts.