When Joan Didion called The Doors and Jim Morrison “the Norman Mailers of the top 40”

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

Netflix’s Joan Didion Doc Does Justice to Its Epochal Subject

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold premieres Oct. 27 on Netflix Joan Didion has set an impossible standard for any documentarian who would want to cover her life. She’s essentially already done it ...
The Daily Free Press

Is ‘Didion and Babitz’ quality commentary — or a contrived catfight? | Better Late Than Never

As a longtime fan of Joan Didion and Eve Babitz, I was enthralled by Lili Anolik’s 2024 book “Didion and Babitz.” As a journalist and feminist, however, I was appalled. Like so many young women in ...
The Daily Californian

Maybe Berkeley made Joan Didion cry too

Content warning: mentions of suicide. Joan Didion’s author portrait hangs above my bed like an icon of a patron saint, looking over me while I sleep. A new-ish picture of an older her, this likeness ...