What value is added, for instance, to Joan Didion’s classic essay “The White Album” by turning it into a piece of theater? After all, you can read the original easily enough on your own. Or, right now ...

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“We tell ourselves stories in order to live,” Joan Didion famously wrote to open “The White Album,” her kaleidoscopic essay on Los Angeles in the late 1960s and early ’70s that effortlessly flows ...

As you may know, I prefer to read fiction, especially quality novels, over nonfiction. I think I’ve long equated nonfiction writing with history textbooks, which tend to be very boring even when they ...

Eve Babitz, the “dowager groupie” who wrote Slow Days, Fast Company and was known for her relationships with the likes of The Doors’ frontman Jim Morrison and Steve Martin, and Joan Didion, the author ...

On Thursday, it was announced that prolific writer Joan Didion had died at the age of 87. An executive at her publisher, Knopf, confirmed the author's death to TODAY in an email and said that Didion ...

I came to Joan Didion backwards, starting with the wry and savage essays of Political Fictions, and only later working my way backward through her oeuvre. It began in 2001. I was in college. It’s hard ...

On Thursday, it was announced that prolific writer Joan Didion had died at the age of 87. An executive at her publisher, Knopf, confirmed the author's death to TODAY in an email and said that Didion ...

Joan Didion, novelist and writer born in Sacramento and who famously described the city as “the Midwest of California,” died on Thursday in New York at age 87. Didion wrote several books and magazine ...

As you may know, I prefer to read fiction, especially quality novels, over nonfiction. I think I’ve long equated nonfiction writing with history textbooks, which tend to be very boring even when they ...