Many people have been influenced by Joan Didion’s writing. But few of us can tell you what it was like to be the subject of one of her essays. One of her most famous, “Some Dreamers of the ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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’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.

Theoretically, Cog editor Cloe Axelson should be great at keeping a journal. But she has a nagging (if slightly unhinged) ...

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 ...

Didion made her name in essays, reporting and novels with tough, often merciless accountings of cultural currents as they evolved from the 1960s to the end of the century.

In her 1976 essay, “Why I Write,” Joan Didion described herself as the kind of writer “whose most absorbed and passionate hours are spent arranging words on pieces of paper.” ...

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.