Well, it looks as if it’s time once again for my more or less annual piece about Joan Didion. I didn’t set out to make this a yearly tradition. Way back in 2007, I wrote what I thought was a pretty ...
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 ...
In November 1999, writer Joan Didion started seeing Roger MacKinnon, a New York psychiatrist, on the recommendation of the psychiatrist who was treating her daughter Quintana for borderline ...
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 ...
Reading the newly released “Notes to John,” it’s hard not to wonder how the late author Joan Didion would feel about having her personal notes from a series of painful therapy sessions converted into ...
Joan Didion with husband John Gregory Dunne and daughter Quintana Roo Dunne in Malibu, 1976 - John Bryson/Getty Above is a family portrait, taken by the photojournalist John Bryson in 1976. It shows ...
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 ...
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 ...
Few writers of her generation have had the impact on American culture that Joan Didion has had. Since Didion’s death in 2021, a host of writers have sought to reckon with her legacy, including Lili ...
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Joan Didion Undone
Notes to John, posthumously published journal entries chronicling Didion’s therapy sessions, is a peek into the myths and fears that animated her writing life. In 1976, Joan Didion was sent by Rolling ...
It’s been 20 years since writer Joan Didion published “The Year of Magical Thinking,” her intensely personal memoir about her marriage and the sudden death of her husband. And this 2005 interview with ...
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