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: 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 ...
JOAN DIDION: Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner, and life as you know it ends. The question of self-pity. SCOTT DETROW, HOST: Those four short lines, read there by ...
The New York Public Library is opening up its archives of Joan Didion and her husband Gregory Dunne to the public beginning March 26. The Library acquired the late writers' archives in 2023, just over ...
SACRAMENTO – An extraordinary woman with deep Sacramento roots is being celebrated in a new book. "I think she's undefinable, kind of by design. She's just a very brilliant writer in different mediums ...
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 ...
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Joan Didion and Eve Babitz: The uneasy bond between two very different literary ‘it girls’
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 ...
These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. Literary legends Joan ...
In “Didion & Babitz,” author Lili Anolik opens with some advice: “Reader, Don’t be a baby.” It’s an apt warning for readers who might consider themselves Joan Didion and/or Eve Babitz aficionados.
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