There’s a wonderful essay in Joan Didion’s 1968 collection, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” about keeping a notebook. Here’s what she says: “So the point of keeping a notebook has never been, nor is it ...
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 ...
Reading the newly released “Notes to John,” it’s hard not to wonder how Joan Didion would feel about having her personal notes from a series of painful therapy sessions converted into a book after her ...
Joan Didion: Memoirs & Later Writings; By Joan Didion, edited by David L. Ulin; Library of America; 851 pp., $40 Although the branding of Didion has surely accelerated since her death at age 87 in ...
Portrait of American author Joan Didion as she poses outdoors in Berkeley, California in April 1981. Portrait of American author Joan Didion as she poses outdoors in Berkeley, California in April 1981 ...
The Virginian-Pilot: The essential Joan Didion: A reading list for newcomers and fans alike
Joan Didion produced decades’ worth of memorable work: personal essays, reporting and criticism on pop culture, political dispatches from home and abroad and, near the end of her career, a bestselling ...
The essential Joan Didion: A reading list for newcomers and fans alike
The San Bernardino Sun: How Joan Didion influenced writers of all identities
Immediately after Joan Didion’s recent death came the critiques and remembrances by other writers. It didn’t take long for me to notice that nearly all the writers given space and ink to sum up her ...