The book, out April 22, compiles Didion’s journal entries about her experience in psychiatry Julianne Moore will lend her voice to Joan Didion’s latest project. The Academy Award-winning actress, 64, ...

Hollywood is — or was, once — famously a destroyer of souls. In her 1964 essay “I Can’t Get That Monster Out of My Mind,” Joan Didion wrote, “The American motion-picture industry still represents a ...

In her new book, We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine (out March 11 from Liveright), film critic Alissa Wilkinson floats an idea: To truly understand Didion, one must ...

If Joan Didion had an overarching preoccupation as a journalist and novelist, it was to find interstices where truth and myth blend into each other. In many of the essays that were collected in the ...

JOAN DIDION and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, came to L.A. from New York in the summer of 1964. Both had worked as journalists. (She for Vogue; he for Time.) Both wanted to write books. (She her ...

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 ...

A new book by Alissa Wilkinson argues that the iconic writer’s imagination and signature style were profoundly shaped by Hollywood. By Charles Finch Charles Finch is the author, most recently, of ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Knopf publisher Jordan Pavlin and Shelley Wanger, Joan Didion's longtime editor and one of her literary trustees, about the new book "Notes to John." JOAN DIDION: ...

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 ...