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 ...

“Most of us have a Joan Didion origin story, the article or book, or photograph or quote that first made us want to know more about this quiet oracle,” Evelyn McDonell begins. She mentions one of an ...

Since her death, Didion has become a literary subject as popular for her image and writing as for the fascination she inspired for almost half a century. By Casey Schwartz It’s still bright afternoon ...