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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

“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 ...

When I first cracked open Lili Anolik’s dazzling and provocative “Didion & Babitz,” I was dubious. The opening pages have a breathy, adulatory quality that made me think “fangirl.” And for about 60 ...