For Joan Didion, Mementos of Her Daughter’s Childhood Became Material
The opening of the Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne archives in the New York Public Library reveals unseen aspects of their ...
Joan Didion and John Dunne's NYPL Archives are a Treasure Trove
A t some point in the last decade, Joan Didion’s famed elusiveness has evolved into a sort of dare. She has been the subject ...
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A glimpse into the newly opened archive of Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne
About a year after Joan Didion's death in 2021, the New York Public Library (NYPL) began the process to become the stewards ...
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 ...
New book explores Joan Didion's impact on American literature: "We Tell Ourselves Stories"
Wilkinson is the author of "We Tell Ourselves Stories". The book and title pay tribute to acclaimed writer and Sacramento ...
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Joan Didion Knew the Stories We’d Tell About the Manson Murders
Image Joan Didion published “The White Album,” a ... The next day, the Manson family would murder Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, a middle-class couple who managed gro­cery stores, two people ...
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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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Didion is a guide to understanding American culture and its dysfunction, but she’s not the only one
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.” Had she been ...