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 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 and John Dunne's NYPL Archives are a Treasure Trove
There is correspondence between Joan Didion and Nora Ephron, John Updike ... In the archives, we're gifted her typed (and ...
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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 ...
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Slouching Towards 7406 Franklin Avenue
It’s an old saying that you should never meet your heroes. The validity of such a statement, I cannot affirm — I never got ...
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 ...
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.' ...
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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 ...
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Joan Didion and John Dunne's NYPL Archives are a Treasure Trove
At some point in the last decade, Joan Didion’s famed elusiveness has evolved into a sort of dare. She has been the subject of a documentary, five biographies, and an exhibition at the Hammer ...
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Joan Didion was famously reserved. But she openly adored John Wayne and Old Hollywood
Joan Didion, pictured during her L.A. days, was an unabashed fan of Old Hollywood, author Alissa Wilkinson writes in her new book about the famously reserved essayist and author. (Henry Clarke ...