Taken from the collection’s titular, autobiographical essay, Didion’s section on The Doors accomplishes an evocative example ...

The question haunting Joan Didion's "Notes to John" is whether such a private person would have wanted her intimate, unedited reflections (including parental doubts) to be shared with readers. (Cal ...

In a 1939 essay, the critic Philip Rahv argued that there have been two main types in American literature: the solemn and semi-clerical, which he associates with Henry James, and the exuberant, ...

Joan Didion leans against her Corvette Stingray, a cigarette perched between her fingers. Her unsparing, unsmiling gaze seems to sear through the lens of photographer Julian Wasser’s camera, and one ...

I came late, let me admit it, to the novels of Joan Didion. For too long, I considered them if not an afterthought then an ancillary line of work. Such a perception is hardly uncommon; the essays are ...

The revered journalist and writer died at her home in New York City. Revered journalist and author Joan Didion died Thursday at her home in New York City due to complications from Parkinson's disease, ...

CANNABIS PRODUCTS ARE NOT IMPACTED. WELL, TONIGHT, SACRAMENTO CITY COLLEGE, HONORING THE LATE AUTHOR JOAN DIDION. DIDION WAS BORN IN SACRAMENTO IN 1934. SHE WAS A STUDENT AT THAT COLLEGE, AND THE ...

About a year after Joan Didion's death in 2021, the New York Public Library (NYPL) began the process to become the stewards of the joint archive of Didion and her husband, John Gregory Dunne which ...

The archives of the late Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, spanning from letters and wedding pictures to manuscripts and screenplay drafts, have been acquired by the New York Public Library. "The ...

John Gregory Dunne’s engrossing 1974 book chronicles a search for “salvation without commitment” in Sin City. By Andrew Martin Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Drawn ...