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Joan Didion Versus Nostalgia: An Excerpt From "We Tell Ourselves Stories"
Few writers of her generation have had the impact on American culture that Joan Didion has had. Since Didion’s death in 2021, ...
Didion is a guide to understanding American culture and its dysfunction, but she’s not the only one
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What Hollywood meant to Joan Didion
We Tell Ourselves Stories,” by Alissa Wilkinson, looks at how Didion both shaped and was shaped by the movies.
Joan Didion made her mark on L.A. Here are 10 places she knew and loved
Experience Joan Didion’s Los Angeles — her iconic homes, along with the hotels and restaurants she frequented, as two new ...
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Joan Didion was famously reserved. But she openly adored John Wayne and Old Hollywood
If Joan Didion had an overarching preoccupation as a journalist and novelist, it was to find interstices where truth and myth blend into each other. In many of the essays that were collected in ...
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In ‘We Tell Ourselves Stories,’ Alissa Wilkinson Explores Joan Didion’s Time in Hollywood: ‘It’s a New Framework to Look at Her Work’
And she’s basically writing an essay that says political campaigning has turned into ... We are hopelessly sentimental, even ...
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A Guide to Joan Didion’s Books
Didion was a prolific writer of stylish essays, novels, screenplays and memoirs. Here is a sample of some of her works, as reviewed in The New York Times. Didion’s “first collection of ...
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Joan Didion Knew the Stories We’d Tell About the Manson Murders
Image Joan Didion published “The White Album,” a book of essays, in 1979. “In what would probably be the middle of my life I wanted still to believe in the narrative and in the narrative’s ...
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Joan Baez, and Many Friends, Show Her Enduring Resonance at Tribute Concert
Some knew her through A Complete Unknown, the new Bob Dylan flick starring Timothée Chalamet. Others knew her through the Joan Didion essay featured in Slouching Towards Bethlehem, “Where the Kissing ...
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In ‘We Tell Ourselves Stories,’ Alissa Wilkinson spotlights Didion’s influence, and Hollywood’s
The cultural biography “We Tell Ourselves Stories” explores Joan Didion’s relationship with Hollywood and the impact it had on her work.
Joan Didion was famously reserved. But she openly adored John Wayne and Old Hollywood
Joan Didion fell in love with movies as a girl but would sour on Hollywood after working there, Alissa Wilkinson writes in 'We Tell Ourselves Stories.' ...