| 单词 | Didion |
| 例句 | Didion has not carried the torch by herself, of course. Why we won’t let Charles Manson die 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z Joan Didion, who recently passed away, is considered a founder of the creative non-fiction/personal essay genre, but my mother and I, both having studied journalism in college, had never been assigned her work. Quarantine book club: Reading for mental health in a plague year 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Didion and Dunne weren’t safe that night, of course, and neither are we in the long run. Review: ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’ Gets Joan Didion’s Intention Just Right 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z Imagine the joy, then, of a new volume of Didion, even one as slender as “South and West.” Joan Didion’s ‘South and West’ is a reminder of what the journalist could do 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z The scale of it was all out of whack — not the script, which Didion imbued with a soul-baring directness, but the production. Review: ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’ Gets Joan Didion’s Intention Just Right 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z Almost immediately as a political writer, Didion was able to slice through the layers of foolishness and insulation that keep average Americans from seeing the truth of their democracy. Joan Didion exposed political stories America is still telling itself in order to live 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z It calls to mind both Joan Didion and Jessica Mitford, and is alone worth the price of admission to this volume. Review: ‘After the Tall Timber,’ Renata Adler’s Collected Nonfiction 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z They are gathered coolly, unevenly, with an easygoing generalness, like a Didion digest. Joan Didion Revisits the Past Once More 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z The subjects on offer range from Ernest Hemingway to Nancy Reagan — though Didion’s own subjectivity is never far from the page, as usual. 13 New Books to Watch For in January 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z Didion, who died in December, wanted so badly to protect her little family. Review: ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’ Gets Joan Didion’s Intention Just Right 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z An entire section of “The Lost Time Accidents” is written by “Joan Didion.” Review: ‘The Lost Time Accidents’ asks the big questions about where we are 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Joan Didion stayed there as a 20-year-old on a break from college at Berkeley, beginning her writing career and her time in New York. Some of America’s Most Ambitious Women Slept Here 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Because I never met Joan Didion, she remains as alive to me as she's always been. Have we forgotten how to read critically? 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z And while Didion’s estrangement sharpens her reportorial eye, it can curdle, at times, into condescension. Past, Present and Future Collide in Joan Didion’s ‘South and West’ 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z Like Joan Didion before him, Carrère quotes from his own psychiatric evaluation, which characterizes him as having a “sad expression” and “significant moral suffering.” Love or Hate Emmanuel Carrère’s Forceful Tangents, They’re Back in ‘Yoga’ 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z Joan Didion once wrote that writers are always selling someone out. An Oil Boom, a Missing Body and a Native Woman’s Quest to Find It 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z It is, she admits, somewhat bogus of her to identify with Didion this way. Zoe Kazan: ‘There’s so much sexual harassment on set' 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z IN 1988 The New York Review of Books dispatched Joan Didion to report on the presidential election, an assignment that resulted in a classic essay on the modern way of campaigning titled “Insider Baseball.” ?Moneyball,? ?Ides of March? Contain Inside Information 2011-10-09T03:17:20Z You can buy a leather motorcycle jacket with Didion’s face on the back. From literary heavyweight to lifestyle brand: exploring the cult of Joan Didion 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z The show is bound to be compared to the Joan Didion memoir-turned-play “The Year of Magical Thinking.” Theater to Stream: Revivals, One-Man Shows and Docu-Theater 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z Though it feels somehow impolite to mention this, because Didion, 82, is still with us, it is the sort of book that isn’t typically published before the writer is dead. Joan Didion gets out of town in 'South and West' — and finds only fragments 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z And identity, as about a million people from Joan Didion to Jean-Paul Sartre to Oliver Sacks have observed, is really about narrative. Riff: Thelma, Louise and All the Pretty Women 2011-04-24T01:43:01Z Vanessa Redgrave in “The Year of Magical Thinking,” a one-person adaptation of Joan Didion’s book that had a Broadway run several years ago, was released this week, too. Perspective | Listen in as Dan Rather anchors the story of his own highly theatrical life 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z There is something charming there, and one longs for Didion to get really chatty about it. Joan Didion gets out of town in 'South and West' — and finds only fragments 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z The scene, of the sort once presided over by Ellen Willis, Lester Bangs and Joan Didion, is evoked within the present-day plot as a sort of bright aura. Deborah Shapiro’s ‘The Sun in Your Eyes’: A musical whodunit 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z As Hilton Als notes in his elegant and panoramic foreword, Didion is fifth-generation Californian; the language she speaks is, like every writer’s, regional. Joan Didion Revisits the Past Once More 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z The story of Didion's entry into political journalism is all the more remarkable for her reluctance. Joan Didion exposed political stories America is still telling itself in order to live 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z Didion vowed to protect her heart from Hollywood. Five Joan Didion Movies You Can Stream Right Now 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z In that essay, Didion critiques both the idea of women as an oppressed Marxist class and the resulting imposition of feminist ideology onto literature and domestic life. Meghan Daum to Millennials: Get off My Lawn 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Only in a society of constant mobility and dreams of solitary victory, Didion writes, could Howard Hughes become a hero. Who owns patriotism, the left or the right? American artists know the answer 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z What of Updike’s criticism and E. B. White’s essays and Joan Didion’s sociopolitical dispatches? ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Fact, Fiction and In Between 2012-02-24T21:51:58Z As Joan Didion once wrote about New York, it struck me as a place for the very young. How TikTok got me out of my pandemic cooking rut 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z In her theory of writing, Ferrante stands opposed to someone like Joan Didion. ‘In the Margins’ Offers a Path Into Elena Ferrante’s Mind 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z There are many fine books, of course, and a brilliant essay by Joan Didion. Review: In ‘The Reagan Show,’ No Grenada but Lots of the Arms Race 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Didion’s innate sense of rhythm is unmatched, but in her new memoir Blue Nights, she wonders if her ability to serve as its conductor has been lost in the swirling blue depths of sorrow. TIME Recommends: Joan Didion's Blue Nights 2011-11-08T15:30:05Z Didion famously drew her own inspiration from William Butler Yeats's "Second Coming," which brings the calamity of history's tipping points brutally to life. Andrew Bird narrates the "Inside Problems" that plague our atomized age 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z “The Year of Magical Thinking” is adapted from Didion’s best-selling 2005 memoir of losing her husband as their daughter was gravely ill, and Didion applies her dry, detail-oriented eye to herself under duress. Kathleen Turner returns to Arena in Didion’s ‘Magical Thinking’ 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Perhaps it fits that Didion remains as enigmatic here as she always has in her prose. Joan Didion gets out of town in 'South and West' — and finds only fragments 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z The mixed response echoed the feedback on Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” before it was later deemed a classic, which might have made Didion smile. Five Joan Didion Movies You Can Stream Right Now 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z Didion’s account of her travels from New Orleans and Biloxi, Miss., to Meridian, Miss., and Tuscaloosa, Ala., and onto Faulkner’s hometown, Oxford, Miss., makes it clear that she feels like an outsider there. Past, Present and Future Collide in Joan Didion’s ‘South and West’ 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z “Then I would get up, have a Coca-Cola, and start work,” Didion remembers, in a recent documentary by her nephew, Griffin Dunne. Frozen in time: Joan Didion in her California kitchen, October 1972 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z Five years ago the distinguished American writer Joan Didion published a memoir called The Year of Magical Thinking. The Widow's Tale by Mick Jackson 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z But Didion cares less for timelessness than for the evanescence of language, mistrusting pink icing or anything else that might launder truth. Joan Didion Revisits the Past Once More 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z Joan Didion called him the “perfect mold” into which “the inarticulate longings of a nation” were poured. ‘John Wayne: The Life and Legend,’ Explains a Star’s Power 2014-03-24T21:54:48Z It’s from Didion’s 1972 essay, “The Women’s Movement” — she thought it was a crock. A Liberal Uneasy in the World of #MeToo Feminism 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z I’m not sure Didion, whose reputation rests on seizing and scrutinising so many historical moments, has ever not been “having a moment”, but we seem to have reached peak Cult of Joan. From literary heavyweight to lifestyle brand: exploring the cult of Joan Didion 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z Over the course of the narrative, its characters encounter quite a range of historical figures: Klimt, Einstein, Himmler, the Black Panthers and Joan Didion, to name only a few. “It’s a literary novel that ate a pulp paperback”: Novelist John Wray on “The Lost Time Accidents” as science fiction, romance and seedy Third Reich thriller 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z His work, as Joan Didion wrote, “typically featured a cottage or a house of such insistent coziness as to seem actually sinister, suggestive of a trap designed to attract Hansel and Gretel.” Review: ‘Turner,’ a Portrait of a Most Dazzling and Disagreeable Artist 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z If the ’70s brought, via Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion and Norman Mailer, what was called “the New Journalism,” I suggest we now need a New New Journalism. Journalists in the age of Trump: Lose the smugness, keep the mission. 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z In 1988, Robert Silvers, then editor of the New York Review of Books, requested that Didion, a frequent contributor, write a lengthy essay on that year's presidential campaign. Joan Didion exposed political stories America is still telling itself in order to live 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z Many others, of course, have written eloquently about the same experience, most prominently Joan Didion in her book “The Year of Magical Thinking.” Diane Rehm on stepping away from the mic for her book: ‘I just had to write.’ 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Another suggests Didion is “a foot soldier in the mass genocide of native peoples” for referring to them as “Indians.” ‘Let’s Not Do That Again,’ a Crackling Satire Set Against a Senate Run 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z Just as journalism can sometimes rise to the level of literature — in the hands of Joan Didion or Janet Malcolm for example — documentary filmmakers can turn out to be auteurs. Captivating Films, Complicated Truths 2011-07-23T00:03:17Z The purpose of the trip is unclear even to Didion. The South (and the West) through Joan Didion’s Eyes 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Didion merch, in fact, is now enough of a thing for Gawker to despairingly describe her as “Joan Didion, an ever-more popular lifestyle brand”. From literary heavyweight to lifestyle brand: exploring the cult of Joan Didion 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z It was gifted to Didion, but there is no record of the details.” The Portrait Hung in Joan Didion’s Home. But Who Painted It? 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z The mechanism Ms. Didion described — kept moving by interlocking cadres of consultants, pollsters, spin doctors and journalists — continues to distract and perhaps also to alienate the public from the substance of democracy. ?Moneyball,? ?Ides of March? Contain Inside Information 2011-10-09T03:17:20Z Williams “was someone who recognized Didion’s brilliance immediately, became quite enamored of and close to her,” Kiely said. New York Public Library Acquires Joan Didion’s Papers 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Authority is compelling in “Magical Thinking,” even though the tension in Didion is between control and lack of control. Kathleen Turner returns to Arena in Didion’s ‘Magical Thinking’ 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Didion’s publisher Penguin Random House announced the author’s death on Thursday. Joan Didion, peerless prose stylist, dies at 87 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Our conception of 1960s and 70s America exists, in large part, due to Didion. From literary heavyweight to lifestyle brand: exploring the cult of Joan Didion 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z Didion just had a hunch: that the South was somehow the “psychic center” of America. Joan Didion’s ‘South and West’ is a reminder of what the journalist could do 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z The auction, Kiely added, “tells us a lot about the great fondness for Joan Didion — not just her work, but something about her authorial persona that people find both fascinating and seek to emulate.” New York Public Library Acquires Joan Didion’s Papers 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z In his introduction to “Let Me Tell You What I Mean,” her slim new volume, Hilton Als suggests that it’s Didion’s “feeling for the uncanny” that distinguishes her contribution to American nonfiction. Review | Joan Didion’s ‘Let Me Tell You What I Mean’ shows a writer ahead of her time 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z Even where, say in the work of Joan Didion, we find them bored and aimless, lost and unhappy, they are still somehow devoted to the glamour of their position. 'Sex and Rage' have always been the territory of the It Girl 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Berkeley’s 7.5 linear feet of material may include most of Didion’s manuscripts. New York Public Library Acquires Joan Didion’s Papers 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Whether it’s because she’s a woman or because she’s from California, people frequently try to explain to Didion how things are down here. The South (and the West) through Joan Didion’s Eyes 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Her diagnosis didn’t make me reevaluate my beliefs, but it did allow for some “magical thinking,” as Joan Didion said. A skeptic goes to yoga 2012-07-12T00:00:00Z In “The Year of Magical Thinking,” Joan Didion writes that marriage isn’t just about love, it’s about time and memory and a past you share. Modern Love: Saying ?I Don?t? to Release the Anger 2011-01-20T21:50:27Z The truth was Didion and Dunne had never seen the previous versions. Five Joan Didion Movies You Can Stream Right Now 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z Joan Didion wrote that Hardwick was the only writer she knew “whose perception of what it means to be a woman and a writer seems in every way authentic, revelatory, entirely original.” The Cutting Mind and Romantic Heart of Elizabeth Hardwick 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z The portrait’s power was unquestionable: In shades of rose, beige and taupe, it captured a young Joan Didion, angst furrowing her brow. The Portrait Hung in Joan Didion’s Home. But Who Painted It? 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z Fisher, Mary Karr and Joan Didion — no small feat, as she acknowledged with a laugh. Padma Lakshmi explains why she left her knives packed when writing 'Love, Loss, and What We Ate' 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z Maybe, if we’re Joan Didion, we have a panic attack and start to lock our front door. Sharon Tate: Unwitting victims’ rights martyr 2013-04-02T20:02:00Z “Terror is the given of the place,” Joan Didion wrote in her 1983 book “Salvador.” A Poet Remembers Her Impulsive Trip Into a Civil War 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z He spends a page meditating on the moan Hamlet emits on his deathbed, “O, o, o, o,” and he reflects for 14 on a caption Joan Didion once appended to a photograph in Vogue. Celebrating Strange Faces, Gorgeous Sentences and Circular Prose 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z In Blue Nights Didion seems to have skinned herself; there is no trace of her trademark cool distance. TIME Recommends: Joan Didion's Blue Nights 2011-11-08T15:30:05Z Lopate, himself an excellent essayist, is also a leading curator of the form; here, he collects examples from an extraordinary era that included Susan Sontag, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, James Agee and more. New & Noteworthy, From Brilliant Essays to Stupid People 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Knopf wrote in an emailed statement Thursday, "We are deeply saddened to report that Joan Didion died earlier this morning at her home in New York due to complications from Parkinson's disease." Joan Didion, acclaimed author and iconic literary journalist, has died 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Was Ms. Didion aware of the sensation she caused? Joan Didion on the Céline Ad 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z It’s about how we delude ourselves with stories, rather than a paean to the vital, life-giving force of Literature with a capital L. She’s never soothing or simple; Didion’s intellectual severity and honesty preclude that. From literary heavyweight to lifestyle brand: exploring the cult of Joan Didion 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z “I can now afford to think about her,” Ms. Didion writes. Books of The Times: ?Blue Nights,? by Joan Didion ? Review 2011-10-31T18:26:44Z After Mr. Hoffman’s death, in February 2014, Ms. O’Donnell read heavily about grief — she mentioned finding comfort in books by Joan Didion and Joyce Carol Oates, as well in etiquette advice from Emily Post. Mimi O’Donnell Seeks Solace in Theater After Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Death 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z The photographer Albert Watson, who shot the image, said he had posed Didion to mirror the intensity in the portrait, asking her to “tightly clench her fingers” on her knee. The Portrait Hung in Joan Didion’s Home. But Who Painted It? 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z Joan Didion once wrote that because of its “irreducible ambiguities” fiction is “in many ways hostile to ideology.” Girl, Interrupted 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z “Joan Didion wrote that ‘we tell ourselves stories in order to live.’ What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Manchester by the Sea’ and More Oscar Nominees 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Ms. Didion came to prominence with a series of incisive, searching feature articles in Life magazine and The Saturday Evening Post that explored the fraying edges of postwar American life. Joan Didion, ‘New Journalist’ Who Explored Culture and Chaos, Dies at 87 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z I've spent much of the last week reading Joan Didion precisely because she's no longer alive, and yet, there she is on the page, vibrant and much altered since last we met. Have we forgotten how to read critically? 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z Reliving the anguish is understandable, but Turner is most effective when she takes Didion’s analytical stance and just lets flow the innate worldliness she’s flaunted since she first hit the scene in “Body Heat.” Kathleen Turner returns to Arena in Didion’s ‘Magical Thinking’ 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Under the knowing direction of Jenny Sullivan, Purl captures the wry humor, reportorial detachment and imploding pain that characterizes Didion's writing style and the subtext and personality beneath. Mourning and resilience made 'Magical' 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z But that shared history does little, in Didion’s view, to elucidate what happened, to explain how one of them became a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army and the other an essayist and a novelist. The South (and the West) through Joan Didion’s Eyes 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Given the ideological and mercurial biases of the corporate press, there are ground for suspicion that book critics, journalists and obituary writers have reason to overlook Didion's political work that goes beyond popular reputation. Joan Didion exposed political stories America is still telling itself in order to live 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z Contrary to what this book’s title might suggest, Didion deals not in the definite. Joan Didion Revisits the Past Once More 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z Didion’s novel keeps historical details obscured: The book never mentions Ronald Reagan or his secretary of state, George Shultz. ‘The Last Thing He Wanted’ Review: Gun Running and Anxiety 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z With the help of Joan Didion, a friend, she sold an essay to Rolling Stone in 1971. A Breezy Look at Eve Babitz, a Writer With a Born Feel for the Charms of Los Angeles 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z The filter, as Didion painstakingly argued, created a fictional narrative so vast that few could escape it. Joan Didion exposed political stories America is still telling itself in order to live 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z I am not Joan Didion, and I don't think I ever would be, but I channeled the idea of how she would write and that was what was interesting to me. "A similar genesis": The Cure's Lol Tolhurst honors goth and its (spider)web of artistic connections 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z The literary subject might have been “the central question of at least one century,” but for Didion, it’s the sour taste that takes form years later. Joan Didion Revisits the Past Once More 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z That book is omitted from this volume, Darryl Pinckney writes in his introduction, because it was reissued not long ago by the same publisher, with an introduction by Joan Didion. ‘The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick’ Gives Off a Bright Light 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z “Blue nights are the opposite of the dying of the brightness,” Didion observes in that book, “but they are also its warning.” Joan Didion's 'Blue Nights' to be performed by Vanessa Redgrave 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Ms. Oates, who had two pet cats with Mr. Smith, shows her own sharp claws when alluding to Ms. Didion’s book as an exercise in narcissism and vanity. Books Of the Times: The Shock Of Losing A Spouse 2011-02-14T05:27:15Z “South and West,” Joan Didion’s new book, is partly about California, partly about the South. The South (and the West) through Joan Didion’s Eyes 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z It was April 1957, and Joan Didion was writing to her family in California about her job as a copywriter at Vogue. New York Public Library Acquires Joan Didion’s Papers 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Even though Didion and Dunne escaped Hollywood to move back to New York, the movie business remained the family business. Five Joan Didion Movies You Can Stream Right Now 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z Joan Didion’s obituaries reminded us that she published much of her early work in The National Review. P.J. O’Rourke Wrote With High, Cranky Style in a Shrinking Tradition 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z “In what I now know to have been exactly five minutes, the ambulance arrived,” Didion writes, cluing us in to the lag time of her getting a grip on events. Kathleen Turner returns to Arena in Didion’s ‘Magical Thinking’ 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z No matter that Daisy Werthan was hardly the heave of her last Broadway turn, in 2007, in which she held forth solo as Joan Didion for 100 minutes in “The Year of Magical Thinking.” Driving Ms. Redgrave Through a Reluctant Conversation 2011-02-15T13:00:00Z “To believe in ‘the greater good’ is to operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension,” Didion wrote. Meghan Daum to Millennials: Get off My Lawn 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Yet it's the thread of Didion's personal story within her cultural criticism and nonfiction books that has resonated most deeply with her readers. The best part of the new Joan Didion bio 'The Last Love Song'? Joan Didion 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Oates has contrasted her work to Joan Didion's award-winning memoir of widowhood, "The Year of Magical Thinking," which Oates has called "beautiful and elegiac," unlike the assault of grief in "A Widow's Story." Joyce Carol Oates writes memoir of grief 2011-02-11T13:01:04Z As for that dinner party, two of the three he chose are women: Joan Didion and Octavia Butler. In Praise of Omnivorous Readers 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z Dunne is interviewing Didion for the film, however, and said his aunt has been “incredibly touched” by the response to the Kickstarter campaign. Joan Didion documentary: Griffin Dunne on telling his aunt's story 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Ms. Spencer was in the same class of Mademoiselle guest editors as Joan Didion. The Chic Octogenarian Behind Barbie’s Best Looks 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z I’m not sure this novel is art with a capital A anymore than a Joan Didion musical could be, but it’s a charmingly subversive treat. ‘Let’s Not Do That Again,’ a Crackling Satire Set Against a Senate Run 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z The earth didn’t tremble, but I did smile when Didion gave an imperturbable non-comment of a comment to the New York Times. From literary heavyweight to lifestyle brand: exploring the cult of Joan Didion 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z At the recent Joan Didion sale at Stair Galleries, for example, a pair of Céline sunglasses valued at a few hundred dollars sold for $27,000. The Fashion Sale of the Century 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z Cities, and the people who inhabit them, “lose their character,” Didion prophesizes, when they trouble themselves with “self-doubt” over what they do not have, and self-inject the desire — the false need — for an unattainable more. Who owns patriotism, the left or the right? American artists know the answer 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z With their third screenplay, Ms. Didion and her husband struck gold. Joan Didion, ‘New Journalist’ Who Explored Culture and Chaos, Dies at 87 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z In it, Ms. Didion recalls a cab ride when she was 23 during which she tried to talk an older male friend into accompanying her to a party where there would be “new faces.” It?s Not Me, It?s You: How to End a Friendship 2012-01-28T11:00:06Z The crime story, according to Didion, is "devised to obscure not only the city's actual tensions of race and class but also, more significantly, the civic and commercial arrangements that rendered those tensions irreconcilable." Joan Didion exposed political stories America is still telling itself in order to live 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z A half-century after her last “Points West” column, Didion’s questions remain acute as ever. Joan Didion Revisits the Past Once More 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z “I thought the trial had some meaning for me — because I was from California,” Didion writes. Joan Didion gets out of town in 'South and West' — and finds only fragments 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Many of its key practitioners — Talese, Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion, even Hunter S. Thompson — were straight reporters first; they knew how to get the goods. Gay Talese's book 'The Voyeur's Motel' got the author in hot water. But is it any good? 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z Similarly, the name and image of Joan Didion seems in danger of eclipsing her actual work. From literary heavyweight to lifestyle brand: exploring the cult of Joan Didion 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z Two years later, “Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold,” a documentary film produced and directed by Griffin Dunne, the son of her brother-in-law, the journalist Dominick Dunne, was shown on Netflix. Joan Didion, ‘New Journalist’ Who Explored Culture and Chaos, Dies at 87 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z We are given no indication of why Didion has chosen to publish this book now. Joan Didion gets out of town in 'South and West' — and finds only fragments 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z I’m a recent convert to Joan Didion, whom I’ve been meaning to read for years and finally got around to. Kim Gordon: By the Book 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z In another, a spoof of the National Enquirer called the National Brainiac features paparazzi images of art critic Hilton Kramer and author Joan Didion. John Waters: 'I never wanted to be a cult film-maker' 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Sometimes, if the men are the evolved types who went to college at, say, Hampshire or Vassar, they toss in a Joan Didion or a Susan Sontag. Just like a woman: I’m a feminist and I love Bob Dylan—even though I know I shouldn’t 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z "If you want to write about yourself, you have to give them something," Didion has said. Too much grief 2011-08-19T21:55:11Z “They got in touch with me,” Ms. Didion said, as crisp as one of Phoebe Philo’s cotton tunics. Joan Didion on the Céline Ad 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z “That was the first time I read a writer who wrote about where I was from,” Gerwig recalled at the Middleburg Film Festival in Virginia in October, of discovering Didion as a teenager. Perspective | ‘Lady Bird’ makes the case for reframing female stories as epics on a par with ‘male’ genres 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z In a blurb for “Washington Journal,’’ the book that grew out of that effort, Joan Didion called her observations “so coolly absorbing as to render the year almost reasonable.” Elizabeth Drew’s Washington In its heyday, Holiday practiced the kind of no-expense-spared journalism that scarcely exists today, paying princely rates to the likes of Hemingway, Steinbeck, Heller and Didion. Front Row: Holiday, A Travel Magazine, Is Reborn 2014-03-26T21:46:38Z In America, says Meghan Daum, there is more of a tradition for non-fiction examinations of what it is to be female, inspired not only by Bushnell but also by writers such as Joan Didion. Confessions in new women's lit: Emily Gould, Meghan Daum and Sloane Crosley 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z Dominick Dunne and Joan Didion got him his first job in Hollywood, as a costumer on an adaptation of Ms. Didion’s “Play It as It Lays.” Joel Schumacher, Directing ‘Neighborhood 3,’ Gets an Education 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z I'd been reading a lot of Joan Didion, and I really liked the way that she approached talking about events that are news stories. "A similar genesis": The Cure's Lol Tolhurst honors goth and its (spider)web of artistic connections 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z The cause was complications of Parkinson’s disease, according to an email sent by Paul Bogaards, an executive at Knopf, Ms. Didion’s publisher. Joan Didion, ‘New Journalist’ Who Explored Culture and Chaos, Dies at 87 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Quoting Anna Quindlen and other mainstream feminists, Didion attacks the "abstraction" and "sentimentalization" of the case. Joan Didion exposed political stories America is still telling itself in order to live 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z With James Mills’ heroin-addled paperback “The Panic in Needle Park,” Didion explained, “It just immediately said movie to me.” Five Joan Didion Movies You Can Stream Right Now 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z Now, the New York Public Library has acquired Didion and Dunne’s joint personal literary archives. New York Public Library Acquires Joan Didion’s Papers 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z When Jones learned how much the painter wanted Didion to have the painting, he was moved to tears. The Portrait Hung in Joan Didion’s Home. But Who Painted It? 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z For Ms. Didion, that was not just a literary but a spiritual exercise, conducted in opposition to what she calls the “accidie” — the moral torpor — of the late 1960s. Review: Joan Didion’s ‘The White Album,’ Now in Living Color 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z To Didion’s longtime readers, the title may feel peculiar; her essays so rarely waste room on the page by pausing to instruct, or explain so crudely. Joan Didion Revisits the Past Once More 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z “Listen, as Joan Didion famously said, ‘Don’t trust writers’,” Sow says. 'We went to therapy to save our friendship' 2020-07-12T04:00:00Z Reading newly arranged Didion, which is actually old Didion, feels like reaching that dip in a swimming pool where the shallow end suddenly becomes the deep end. Joan Didion Revisits the Past Once More 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z In “The White Album,” Didion describes a time in the late ’60s when she was deeply distressed by the shocking events of that period — the assassinations, protests, riots, the Manson murders, and the rest. Review | A new collection of Joan Didion’s work reminds us that she is her most memorable character 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z In a well-known essay from “Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” Didion mused on the value of keeping a notebook. Joan Didion’s ‘South and West’ is a reminder of what the journalist could do 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z In an essay about Joan Didion Roiphe analyzes the degree to which the rhythms and idioms that characterize Didion’s prose style have been borrowed, if not outright ripped off, by younger writers. In defense of Katie Roiphe 2012-09-04T19:52:00Z “And I immediately thought of Vija Celmins. And then when I was going through Vija’s work there was a gun — someone shooting a gun in the kind of space Didion was describing.” Joan Didion and the Western Spirit 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Once she even saw Joan Didion, a hero, being wheeled around by an attendant for an afternoon constitutional. Maggie Rogers’s Higher Calling 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z Since, he and Didion have remained close -- particularly since the death of the elder Dunne brothers. Joan Didion documentary: Griffin Dunne on telling his aunt's story 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Didion tickets will be honored, and everything else remains the same. Share favorite literary moments with Elliott Bay Book Co. 2013-05-24T18:21:58Z His television series “The West Wing,” both a confirmation of Ms. Didion’s worst fears and a corrective to her despair, turned the endless bureaucratic labor of democratic politics into a thrilling soap opera. ?Moneyball,? ?Ides of March? Contain Inside Information 2011-10-09T03:17:20Z As Joan Didion wrote in “The White Album,” “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” The Pillars of African American History: Ibi Zoboi’s Kwanzaa Picture Book 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z He never found recognition, he never heard from Didion and he never got his exhibit in New York. The Portrait Hung in Joan Didion’s Home. But Who Painted It? 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z Didion has a facility with bad omens, particularly when it comes to Ronald Reagan’s tenure as the governor of California. Joan Didion Revisits the Past Once More 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z “Bananas would rot, and harbor tarantulas,” Didion writes, by way of illustrating the “fatalism I would come to recognize as endemic to the particular tone of New Orleans.” Joan Didion gets out of town in 'South and West' — and finds only fragments 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z And there is material from unrealized projects, like one relating to Israel and the Middle East that Didion began in 2014 but abandoned, Golia said. New York Public Library Acquires Joan Didion’s Papers 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z While I'm relaying trivia, it's also interesting to note that Joan Didion and Ann Beattie had both previously been on the Mademoiselle scheme. Reading group: Art and autobiography in The Bell Jar 2013-01-09T13:29:56Z That sort of paradox is central to Didion’s work: She takes a ruin and in prose makes it whole and beautiful. Joan Didion gets out of town in 'South and West' — and finds only fragments 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z No contemporary writer offers perspective like Joan Didion. TIME Recommends: Joan Didion's Blue Nights 2011-11-08T15:30:05Z But, to rephrase Didion: to make an omelette, you need not only those broken eggs but someone with the certainty to break them. Meghan Daum to Millennials: Get off My Lawn 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z With this collection she stakes her claim to being Florida’s unofficial poet laureate, as Joan Didion is for California. Review | New stories from Lauren Groff, who wrote President Obama’s favorite novel in 2015 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z But along with Quintana’s composure and sophistication, Ms. Didion writes, there would later be bouts of “suicidal despair.” Books of The Times: ?Blue Nights,? by Joan Didion ? Review 2011-10-31T18:26:44Z In 2005, Joan Didion created a best-seller with "The Year of Magical Thinking," her coolly observed account of her husband's death and its aftermath. 'A Widow's Story': Joyce Carol Oates' memoir of life after her husband's sudden death 2011-04-14T21:50:05Z Didion and her husband, John Dunne, had been friends with many artists. The Portrait Hung in Joan Didion’s Home. But Who Painted It? 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z “I lived my twenties in New York City, thought I’d be a little Joanie Didion, packing my suitcase for reporting jobs with a leotard and a bottle of bourbon.” Review: ‘Friendship,’ by Emily Gould In her new memoir, Didion writes about how magical thinking no longer seemed possible following the loss of her daughter. TIME Recommends: Joan Didion's Blue Nights 2011-11-08T15:30:05Z Upchurch and designer Jesse Belsky keep the house lights up at first as Turner draws us all into Didion’s experience, yet at other times darkens the stage gloomily as the hardships keep coming. Kathleen Turner returns to Arena in Didion’s ‘Magical Thinking’ 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z It’s an interesting mix, for Didion’s equally singular voice is almost eerily cool. Kathleen Turner returns to Arena in Didion’s ‘Magical Thinking’ 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z A 1965 profile by Didion, published in The Saturday Evening Post, observed that Brown seemed mostly “very tired.” Was She a Feminist? The Complicated Legacy of Helen Gurley Brown. 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Although it was 1970, the attitudes Didion encountered can sometimes sound like those described by Harper Lee in “To Kill a Mockingbird,” set in 1930s Alabama. Past, Present and Future Collide in Joan Didion’s ‘South and West’ 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z Didion remembers her trauma-scrambled brain wanting to fend off an obituary for Dunne in The Los Angeles Times, because maybe on Pacific Time, he was still alive. Review: ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’ Gets Joan Didion’s Intention Just Right 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z The inert process, Didion wrote in the foreword to a compendium of her political essays aptly called "Political Fictions," "proceeded from a series of fables about American experience." Joan Didion exposed political stories America is still telling itself in order to live 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z With her iconic 1960s and ‘70s essays about Los Angeles and the West, in collections such as “Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” Didion helped invent New Journalism. Read Your Way Around Los Angeles 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z The Esquire issue in which Didion’s essay appeared was devoted to “Great American Things,” and included paeans to apple pie, bluejeans, baseball, bourbon and television. ‘Meet Me by the Fountain’ Takes a Tour of the Mall 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z This book, Didion’s first work of nonfiction, was published in 1968, when she was in her 30s; and Keaton’s portrait of her is utterly convincing. Eight Audiobook Classics Written, and Narrated, by Women 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z For 15 years, Didion and Dunne took turns trying to squeeze money out of studios. Five Joan Didion Movies You Can Stream Right Now 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z They can help us grasp what Didion called “the shifting phantasmagoria” of the human experience. The Pillars of African American History: Ibi Zoboi’s Kwanzaa Picture Book 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z This is Joan Didion’s fantasy manifest: “Even his history seemed right,” she writes, “for it was no history at all.” Waking from the John Wayne dream: Columbus and Jackson are dead, but America’s war against Indigenous people lives on 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z All of these works are gathered in “Joan Didion: The 1960s & 70s,” the first of several planned volumes of her work from the Library of America. Review | A new collection of Joan Didion’s work reminds us that she is her most memorable character 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z In Vogue, Joan Didion lambasted “its suggestion that history need not happen to people … Just whistle a happy tune, and leave the Anschluss behind”. How The Sound of Music led the way for the critic-proof hit musical 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z He also happened to leave bizarre messages for Didion: “I guess you think our mother used to be County Cookie Chairman,” goes one of them. Joan Didion gets out of town in 'South and West' — and finds only fragments 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z The collection also includes Didion’s annotated copies of the confessions made by the five young men convicted in the 1989 Central Park jogger attack, which were later revealed to be false. New York Public Library Acquires Joan Didion’s Papers 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z "We tell ourselves stories in order to live," Joan Didion wrote in her great essay, "The White Album." Facts not what they appear in Barnes' novella 2011-10-26T21:52:03Z Patty Hearst was once one of these girls, and so was Didion. The South (and the West) through Joan Didion’s Eyes 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z He set up a table in the theatre, and a sign: Cafe Didion. Frozen in time: Joan Didion in her California kitchen, October 1972 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z Unlike Pynchon, Joan Didion did not visit the community to write about Watts; rather, she sought to understand it through a wider lens, that of the city at large and its promise of apocalypse. The literature of Watts 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z Joan Didion’s 1993 report on a California town that fell under the sway of the Spur Posse, a teen-age gang, was also quite popular. The Twenty-Five Most-Read New Yorker Archive Stories of 2018 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z But as Joan Didion once wrote: “What we make of that loss is what makes everything else matter.” Cats can make you laugh, cry, lose sleep – and then break your heart 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z And our book critic Michiko Kakutani argues that that’s exactly what we get from “South and West,” a new book by Joan Didion featuring two long essays she wrote in the 1970s. Anderson Cooper Says He Muted Trump on Twitter 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Here, if indeed these are just the rough notes, there is no new Didion to be discovered. Joan Didion gets out of town in 'South and West' — and finds only fragments 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z She takes aim at other targets, including some of Joan Didion’s writing about the city and David Simon’s HBO series “Treme,” named after the New Orleans neighborhood. ‘The Yellow House’ Is a Major Memoir About a Large Family and Its Beloved Home 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z Ms. Didion writes about becoming 75 in 2009 and her difficulty in accepting the fact that she can no longer wear “the red suede sandals with four-inch heels that I had always preferred.” Books of The Times: ?Blue Nights,? by Joan Didion ? Review 2011-10-31T18:26:44Z That does not mean that the observations Didion presents here are without elegance and insight. Joan Didion gets out of town in 'South and West' — and finds only fragments 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z The Old West of legend, now somewhat tarnished, is also present in Didion’s next novel, “Play It as It Lays.” Review | A new collection of Joan Didion’s work reminds us that she is her most memorable character 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Reading her letter of rejection from Stanford, Didion recalls “trying to interpret the words in some less final way.” Joan Didion Revisits the Past Once More 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z It bears some resemblance to Joan Didion’s, if Didion were less skittish and insistently stylish and generated more warmth. The Cant-Free Elegance of Jenny Diski’s Irresistible Mind 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z In her assessment of Stewart's detractors, Didion echoes this sentiment, referring to many of them as "misogynistic in a cartoon way." Martha Stewart's brand has always been subversive 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z Like Joan Didion, another American writer, Ms Crabapple’s toughness comes from her willingness to accept her vulnerability as much as from her talent and unique eye. When anger turns to ink 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z I was like, "Well, I'm not Joan Didion, so why not let Joan Didion roll the joint?" "GLOW" star Betty Gilpin on battling "implanted patriarchy" and women "cycling through selves" 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z After finishing “Blue Nights,” Mr. Daugherty reports, Ms. Didion felt increasingly “weary, listless,” less inclined to push herself, less invested in maintaining the momentum she’d once prized, uncertain whether she would write again. Review: ‘The Last Love Song,’ a Biography of Joan Didion 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z The museum used this collection to try to establish a sense of place for California — the subject — which was, not incidentally, central to Didion’s writing. Joan Didion and the Western Spirit 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z “It is hard to find California now,” Didion wrote, “unsettling to wonder how much of it was merely imagined or improvised.” Holiday magazine: The rise and fall of the glamorous mid-century travel publication 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z It was published in the New York Herald Tribune, in 1965, and was later included, alongside pieces by Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, and Joan Didion, in Tom Wolfe’s anthology “The New Journalism.” The Rock Critic Robert Christgau’s Big-Hearted Theory of Pop 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Didion once wrote that her advantage as a reporter is that “people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests.” Review | Joan Didion’s ‘Let Me Tell You What I Mean’ shows a writer ahead of her time 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z In every instance, Didion, an unparalleled stylist, has told those stories better. The best part of the new Joan Didion bio 'The Last Love Song'? Joan Didion 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z The shorter entry is a meditation on California, the place Didion grew up and long called home. Past, Present and Future Collide in Joan Didion’s ‘South and West’ 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z In Turner’s hands, Didion is a woman cracking up and at the edge of panic. Kathleen Turner returns to Arena in Didion’s ‘Magical Thinking’ 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z The first person I ever aspired to write like was Joan Didion, I guess. Johnny Marr returns: “I was an 18-year-old guitar player … I wanted to be modern” 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z Ms. Didion took up the subject of her daughter’s death in her 2011 memoir, “Blue Nights.” Joan Didion, ‘New Journalist’ Who Explored Culture and Chaos, Dies at 87 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Didion, whom Gerwig calls her patron saint, looms large in “Lady Bird.” Perspective | ‘Lady Bird’ makes the case for reframing female stories as epics on a par with ‘male’ genres 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z I guess, like, Hunter Thompson or Joan Didion or something like that. Did we learn anything from the hippies? 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z Phoebe Philo, the patron saint of dressing for the female gaze, the designer whose work convinced Joan Didion to pose for an ad and turned her customers into groupies, is returning to business. Phoebe Philo Is Returning to Fashion With Her Own Brand 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z Joan Didion famously said, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” David Means on Waiting for the High to Kick in 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z And this may be part of the reason that the mystified meta-discourse Ms. Didion deplored — the fetishizing of means over ends, of form over content — exerts an ever-stronger fascination. ?Moneyball,? ?Ides of March? Contain Inside Information 2011-10-09T03:17:20Z Perhaps Didion’s flair for pithy summary derives from these editing drills at Vogue. Review | Joan Didion’s ‘Let Me Tell You What I Mean’ shows a writer ahead of her time 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z At the same time, there’s so much grief comedy right now that it’s already developed its own clichés: Joan Didion references, bits about the phrase “He’s in a better place.” That’s the Funny Thing About Grief 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z It’s not her fault that Didion has always struck the fashion world as irresistibly on-brand. From literary heavyweight to lifestyle brand: exploring the cult of Joan Didion 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z For Didion, everything was gained in the voyage from mind to pen; for Ferrante, much goes missing. ‘In the Margins’ Offers a Path Into Elena Ferrante’s Mind 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z Warning: this is the part where I quote Joan Didion. Meryl Streep’s Twenties, and My Own 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Joan Didion was one of the many journalists to find gold in the Manson case. Why we won’t let Charles Manson die 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z A Kickstarter campaign for it successfully closed late last year, and it's being directed by filmmaker and nephew Griffin Dunne — with Didion's cooperation. The best part of the new Joan Didion bio 'The Last Love Song'? Joan Didion 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z This summer will bring the first major biography of Joan Didion, a California native who was keenly attuned to sophisticated conspiracies long before Silicon Valley was a place capable of hatching them. Cool Beach Books for Hot Summer Days 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z By the early 1960s Ms. Didion was writing for Vogue, Mademoiselle and National Review, often on topics like “Jealousy: Is It a Curable Illness?” Joan Didion, ‘New Journalist’ Who Explored Culture and Chaos, Dies at 87 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z But word never traveled back that the painting had reached Didion. The Portrait Hung in Joan Didion’s Home. But Who Painted It? 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z It has drawn composers like Stravinsky and Schoenberg, writers like Thomas Mann and Joan Didion, architects like Frank Gehry and artists like David Hockney. A Soaring Arts Scene in Los Angeles Confronts a Changing Landscape 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z “I hadn’t dealt with Quintana,” Didion acknowledged, explaining why she wrote the book. Joan Didion's 'Blue Nights' to be performed by Vanessa Redgrave 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Ms. Didion constructed a tripartite career devoted to reporting, screenwriting and fiction. Joan Didion, ‘New Journalist’ Who Explored Culture and Chaos, Dies at 87 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z The next section of “South and West” consists of a dozen pages of notes Didion took in 1976, for a magazine assignment about the Patty Hearst trial. The South (and the West) through Joan Didion’s Eyes 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z You could never mistake it for anything other than Didion. Joan Didion Revisits the Past Once More 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z The sample in question features the first 44 pages of “Play It As It Lays,” the 1972 film based on Didion’s novel of the same name. Discovering the screenplay of Joan Didion's 'Play It As It Lays' 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z But this book lacks a unifying idea; his critical take on Didion's work is mushy at best; Didion, her family and friends declined to be interviewed for the piece, so he didn't even get access. The best part of the new Joan Didion bio 'The Last Love Song'? Joan Didion 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z To deal with her grief, she said she read "The Year of Magical Thinking" by Joan Didion, the Pulitzer-Prize winning account of Didion's year following the death of her husband. Michelle Williams still asks why Heath Ledger died 2010-12-23T19:03:55Z “I went to journalism school because of Didion’s writing,” said Jones, who became a documentary filmmaker. The Portrait Hung in Joan Didion’s Home. But Who Painted It? 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z Didion’s 1991 essay about the case in The New York Review of Books was prescient in the doubts it raised. New York Public Library Acquires Joan Didion’s Papers 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Like Joan Didion, he knows he’s always selling someone out. ‘Devil House,’ a Confident, Creepy Novel About a Wicked Unsolved Crime 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z Beyond a signature and a date — L. Johnson, 1977 — very little was known about who painted it, why, or how it reached Didion. The Portrait Hung in Joan Didion’s Home. But Who Painted It? 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z Didion, 22 at the time and less than a year out of the University of California, Berkeley, also added her thoughts on a book she had recently read that lamented the conformism of her peers. New York Public Library Acquires Joan Didion’s Papers 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Even the eternally alienated Joan Didion wrote of buying two straw hats, four bottles of nail enamel and “a toaster, on sale at Sears,” at the Ala Moana Center in Honolulu. An Ode to Shopping Malls 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z “I had promised her,” Ms. Didion recalled, “that we would not let the Broken Man catch her.” Books of The Times: ?Blue Nights,? by Joan Didion ? Review 2011-10-31T18:26:44Z What does ‘justice’ mean?” he writes, before nicely phrase-checking Joan Didion: “If you look closely you’ll see the stories they are telling us about ourselves.” Why the Death Penalty Is Dying: A New Book Tells the Surprising Story 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z It’s not just that her recipes reveal her – reading her work you see Didion discovers herself this way too. Frozen in time: Joan Didion in her California kitchen, October 1972 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z There have always been competing claims on the Didion legacy by New York and California. Joan Didion and the Western Spirit 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z It’s a seductive story line that Bolin calls the “Hello to All That,” after Joan Didion. Coming of Age — and Becoming a Writer — in an America Obsessed With ‘Dead Girls’ 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z But if we tell ourselves stories in order to live, as Joan Didion famously observed, we also tell them in order to brand. The Captionfluencers 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z Stone reported on Watergate for the Review, Joan Didion wrote about the United States in the 1970s and El Salvador in the 1980s, V.S. Robert Silvers, a founding editor of New York Review of Books, dies at 87 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Unlike some other hugely influential writers, Didion’s shadow doesn’t retroactively diminish her. From literary heavyweight to lifestyle brand: exploring the cult of Joan Didion 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z Tracy Daugherty's "The Last Love Song" fails to tell Didion's story more deeply, revealingly or informatively than Didion has already told it herself. The best part of the new Joan Didion bio 'The Last Love Song'? Joan Didion 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z It's like being at an insider's cocktail party where the most delicious gossip about the rich and powerful is being dished by smart people, such as Gore Vidal, Joan Didion, Arthur Miller and Dennis Hopper. How L.A. became itself: Jean Stein's new oral history 'West of Eden' 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Griffin Dunne will present “Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold,” a documentary he made about his aunt. Perspective | Now in its fifth edition, Middleburg Film Festival offers respite from all things Weinstein 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z He does not explain why he’s even attached to this book, instead falling into the trap of trying to ape Didion’s style. Joan Didion gets out of town in 'South and West' — and finds only fragments 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Joan Didion writes so unsentimentally about the loss of control one feels in not being able to protect your children as they grow up, which is a big part of midlife, as does Yiyun Li. Dana Spiotta Loves Coming Across Jokes in Really Old Books 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z There are people entitled to mourn her, to whom I offer my sincere condolences, but I am one of the fortunate millions whose long-term relationship with Didion remains essentially unchanged. Have we forgotten how to read critically? 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z Joan Didion's words have contributed a great deal of energy to this cultural effort. Why we won’t let Charles Manson die 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z With the publication of “South and West,” there is every reason to be grateful that Didion heeded her own advice, and wrote it all down. Joan Didion’s ‘South and West’ is a reminder of what the journalist could do 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z “A Widow’s Story” willfully taps into the increasingly lucrative loss-of-spouse market that has thus far been dominated by Joan Didion’s “Year of Magical Thinking.” Books Of the Times: The Shock Of Losing A Spouse 2011-02-14T05:27:15Z When the novel was a minor hit, Didion and Dunne turned it into their second film, with Tuesday Weld as the lead and “The Swimmer” director Frank Perry at the helm. Five Joan Didion Movies You Can Stream Right Now 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z The musician and author of the memoir “Girl in a Band” is a fan of Joan Didion: “How cool is it that Céline chose her for their new ad campaign? I want those sunglasses.” Kim Gordon: By the Book 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Mr. Daugherty expertly dissects Ms. Didion’s preoccupation with narratives — not just with the techniques of storytelling but also with the subtexts undergirding the personal and political story lines mapped in her work. Review: ‘The Last Love Song,’ a Biography of Joan Didion 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z Redgrave has previously been seen on Broadway in her Tony Award-winning performance in "Long Day's Journey Into Night," and, most recently, in Joan Didion's "The Year of Magical Thinking," in 2007. Jones, Redgrave to co-star in 'Driving Miss Daisy' 2010-06-29T20:06:00Z Someday someone will write a biography worthy of Joan Didion, an author known for her razor-sharp insights and crystalline style. The best part of the new Joan Didion bio 'The Last Love Song'? Joan Didion 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z So the Didion style is there, in the close attention paid to the sound of the words — sound is always how Didion’s created an atmosphere. Joan Didion gets out of town in 'South and West' — and finds only fragments 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z In five decades’ worth of essays, reportage and criticism, Didion has documented the charade implicit in how things are, in a first-person, observational style that is not sacrosanct but common-sensical. Joan Didion Revisits the Past Once More 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z She doesn’t physically resemble Didion, and she’s not attempting an impersonation. Review: ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’ Gets Joan Didion’s Intention Just Right 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z Joan Didion wrote that “we tell ourselves stories in order to live.” Review: ‘Nocturnal Animals,’ Brutality Between the Pages and Among the Fabulous 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Nesbit, the super agent whose clients have included Joan Didion and Robert Caro and Tom Wolfe, is portrayed so coolly in this book that the pages about her almost shatter as you turn them. Her Father Was a Drama Critic, Her Mother a Superstar Agent 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Or, since nearly every piece in the collection contains some mention of flowers, like a Didion bouquet. Joan Didion Revisits the Past Once More 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z When East Coast literati ask themselves this question, they often answer: Joan Didion. Read Your Way Around Los Angeles 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z Als divides his time these days between New York and California — much the way the subject of the show once did — as he teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, where Didion went to school. Joan Didion and the Western Spirit 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Didion’s intervention is interesting because it’s among this book’s contentions that Babitz’s literary career was a reaction to that of her famous friend. A Breezy Look at Eve Babitz, a Writer With a Born Feel for the Charms of Los Angeles 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z Ms. Didion’s reporting reflected Norman Mailer’s prescription for “enormously personalized journalism in which the character of the narrator was one of the elements in the way the reader would finally assess the experience.” Joan Didion, ‘New Journalist’ Who Explored Culture and Chaos, Dies at 87 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Didion's most famous line is probably, "We tell ourselves stories in order to live." Joan Didion exposed political stories America is still telling itself in order to live 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z How well do we really know Joan Didion? Joan Didion gets out of town in 'South and West' — and finds only fragments 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Didion gets caught in a downpour and runs into a trinket shop, where she buys a beach towel to dry herself. The South (and the West) through Joan Didion’s Eyes 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z “Navel-gazing with a social purpose,” is how Roiphe describes Didion’s recipe for the merging of the personal and the political. In defense of Katie Roiphe 2012-09-04T19:52:00Z For many Southerners, Didion remarks, “The Civil War was yesterday, but 1960 is spoken of as if it were about 300 years ago.” The South (and the West) through Joan Didion’s Eyes 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z From the outset Didion’s nonfiction has shown no obligation to the whopping epiphanic. Joan Didion Revisits the Past Once More 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z Joan Didion’s California has always seemed to me familiar, yet exotic. The South (and the West) through Joan Didion’s Eyes 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Joan Didion worked for Vogue in the 1960s. Women’s magazines are dying. Will we miss them when they’re gone? 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z The screenplay captures much of this jangly disconnection, the lack of narrative connection that has long been Didion’s most vivid theme. Discovering the screenplay of Joan Didion's 'Play It As It Lays' 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z The title is a nod to the Joan Didion novel “Play It as It Lays.” Up Close: Justin Vivian Bond Turns Androgyny Into High Art 2012-06-20T18:31:16Z Still, salvation keeps arriving: Sentences — with their detached, reportorial tone, their economy of words, and piercing observations — that are vintage Didion. Joan Didion’s ‘South and West’ is a reminder of what the journalist could do 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z It was during one such manic episode that he painted Didion’s portrait, she said. The Portrait Hung in Joan Didion’s Home. But Who Painted It? 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z Didion admits here that the pieces she had in mind turned out to be busts. Joan Didion’s ‘South and West’ is a reminder of what the journalist could do 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z Joan Didion and Oscar Wilde both saying that what you write in your fiction comes true. How Alexander Chee wrote “The Queen of the Night”: “‘Buffy’ reruns daily. The need to watch all of ‘Six Feet Under’ in a week. So much Internet” 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Didion broke new ground in 2005 with this chronicle of the aftermath of her husband’s sudden death and the illness of her only daughter. The holidays are a lonely time for those who have loved and lost. These books can help. 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z Ellis claims it’s an homage to his literary heroine Joan Didion’s “The White Album,” an allusion that will be lost on almost everyone. Bret Easton Ellis, the political outrage machine who has never voted for president 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z Nick finds such generational salvos “invigorating,” but his real passion project is lyrics for a musical about Didion’s move from California to the East Coast, tentatively titled “Hello to All That!” ‘Let’s Not Do That Again,’ a Crackling Satire Set Against a Senate Run 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z Didion is portrayed as an eternal daughter of the Golden State. The best part of the new Joan Didion bio 'The Last Love Song'? Joan Didion 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z It features interviews with editor Robert Silvers and author Joan Didion. TV highlights: Penguin makes his way back to the city on ‘Gotham’ IN AN essay called “The White Album” Joan Didion once wrote: “Many people…believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969.” Mean girls 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Joan Didion said that the appeal of the ocean for her was the constancy of the horizon, “always there, flat.” They swam against the tide with a winter beach vacation. Verdict: Worth it. 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z “In the South they are convinced that they are capable of having bloodied their land with history,” Didion writes. The South (and the West) through Joan Didion’s Eyes 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Les was an avid Didion fan, who identified with her portrayal of the 1960s and devoured her books as they came out. The Portrait Hung in Joan Didion’s Home. But Who Painted It? 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z What helped me in writing this book was Joan Didion, knowing she was the best and most successful at these major publications. What everyone gets wrong about Hunter S. Thompson 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z This pocket-size hardcover bound in opalescent cloth, featuring a watercolor-like illustration of the young Joan Didion looking out at the reader, may be the loveliest edition of this book ever printed. Cocktails, crafts, rap, Bob Ross, yoga and cats: Great stocking stuffer books 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z The power that the narrative of the crossing holds is observed by Joan Didion in “Where I Was From,” her memoir of California. Inside Alejandro Iñárritu's VR border drama at LACMA: What you will see and why you might cry 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Novelist Joan Didion described him as “a great and obsessed stylist, a writer to whom the shape of the sentence is the story.” This is your brain on murder: What the mind of a psychopath looks like 2014-03-09T18:30:00Z As Didion repeats, “It will happen to you.” Kathleen Turner returns to Arena in Didion’s ‘Magical Thinking’ 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z On the Republican side, Didion saw the influence and proliferation of "reactive angers" illustrating a "quite florid instance of what Richard Hofstadter had identified in 1965 as the paranoid style of American politics." Joan Didion exposed political stories America is still telling itself in order to live 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z Didion admits: “You live for moments like that, if you’re doing a piece. Good or bad.” Five Joan Didion Movies You Can Stream Right Now 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z To build his narrative, he relies on previously published work — frequently Didion's own — to tell her life story. The best part of the new Joan Didion bio 'The Last Love Song'? Joan Didion 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Candy Bergen, Sally Fields, Eve Babitz and, of course, Joan Didion have all written brilliantly about their Hollywood lives. Bette Midler Is Still in the Thrall of 19th-Century Novelists 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z A few of the more polished passages bring to mind what Didion could do at her height — the literary journalism from El Salvador, the defining pieces about California’s culture of ennui. Joan Didion’s ‘South and West’ is a reminder of what the journalist could do 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z There isn’t actually an untold Jobs/Didion story. I just wanted you to read this. Steve Jobs and Joan Didion: The Untold Story 2011-10-28T18:03:30Z Mr. Hitchens was that rare public intellectual who was as comfortable pronouncing on V. S. Naipaul and Joan Didion and Edmund Wilson as he was on Bosnia and Iraq and Hezbollah. Review: Christopher Hitchens Expounds in ‘And Yet ...’ 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Joan Didion “served me tea, and told me something I’ve never forgotten,” Ms. Alger said, “that you have to have something to write about before you learn how to write about it.” Cristina Alger Writes ?The Darlings,? on Ethics, and Fortune Brought Low 2012-02-17T22:28:30Z Didion keeps her dead husband's shoes because "he might need them". Too much grief 2011-08-19T21:55:11Z But no, I just took it head on and didn't really think of it as a creative undertaking or think to even . . . well, I read the Joan Didion book. "I've done my share of bombing": Marc Maron talks about navigating failure, grief and embarrassment 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z Streisand took home a Golden Globe for the film, making her the third actress in a row to win a prize for a role that Didion originated on the page. Five Joan Didion Movies You Can Stream Right Now 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z The Didion exit — on full display in this collection — reveals the writer’s discreet contempt for those who cheer on the encore. Joan Didion Revisits the Past Once More 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z “The books are similar in that they ask more questions than they answer,” Didion told me in 2011, as if to trace a line between the three of them. Joan Didion's 'Blue Nights' to be performed by Vanessa Redgrave 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z If opera productions are the novels of vocal music — immersive, imagined worlds — then song recitals are first-person essays like Ms. Didion’s. Critic’s Notebook: Lincoln Center Screens Bygone Lieder Performances 2014-02-07T22:15:35Z “Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969,” per Joan Didion’s celebrated line. Charles Manson’s Musical Ambitions 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z With her flat, hypnotic voice, recklessness and inability to shape a future for herself, Elsie calls to mind Joan Didion’s Maria Wyeth in “Play It as It Lays.” Following a Punjabi Indian Family, a Missing Distinguished Novelist and More 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Didion famously insisted that she wrote in order to find out what she thought. ‘In the Margins’ Offers a Path Into Elena Ferrante’s Mind 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z The Didion portrait became, over the years, a reference for the painter. The Portrait Hung in Joan Didion’s Home. But Who Painted It? 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z And most surprisingly, as the story unfolds, the voice of a new narrator begins to creep in, one that pulls from the philosophy of Martha Nussbaum, the “Iliad” and Joan Didion. Refugees, Ghosts and a Story About Stories 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z One thinks of Joan Didion’s essay “Goodbye to All That.” It?s Not Me, It?s You: How to End a Friendship 2012-01-28T11:00:06Z The inspiration arrived courtesy of Joan Didion's collection of essays, "Slouching Towards Bethlehem." Andrew Bird narrates the "Inside Problems" that plague our atomized age 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z For Joan Didion, writing in Esquire in 1975, malls represented “the perfect fusion of the profit motive and the egalitarian ideal.” ‘Meet Me by the Fountain’ Takes a Tour of the Mall 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z “Joan Didion: What She Means” is devoted not to a painter, sculptor or photographer, but to a writer. Joan Didion and the Western Spirit 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Moore’s voice on the page is sometimes reminiscent of one of her mentors, Joan Didion, in its spellbinding rhythms and effortless transition between the physical and the intellectual. Review | ‘It would be all right’: Novelist Susanna Moore finds solace in a sometimes troubling life story 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z As Joan Didion once wrote in a not-entirely-different context, “Oh, wow.” Review: In ‘Modern Life Is Rubbish,’ a Musician Fights Maturity, Again 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z An excerpt from her 1965 essay, “Notes From a Native Daughter,” highlighted on a wall of the exhibition, captures what it was about Didion’s writing about California that was so compelling. Joan Didion and the Western Spirit 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Next up was “The Year of Magical Thinking,” which is awfully hard to put down—it’s really pretty incredible that Joan Didion was able to make a harrowing exploration of grief and loss a page-turner. What We're Reading: Summer Edition 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z After years in the privacy of Didion’s home, it was in the public spotlight for the first time, easily viewed online, in the auction house’s catalog, and in the news coverage of the much-publicized sale. The Portrait Hung in Joan Didion’s Home. But Who Painted It? 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z For dessert, read Joan Didion’s essay “Goodbye to All That” while eating a peach. Sloane Crosley: By the Book 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z But, in recent years, the fashion industry’s Didion adoration seems to be making her more a style symbol than a person who has written some excellent books. From literary heavyweight to lifestyle brand: exploring the cult of Joan Didion 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z Didion attended the University of California, Berkeley, earning a bachelor's degree in English in 1956. Joan Didion, acclaimed author and iconic literary journalist, has died 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z The jukebox played “Sweet Caroline,” and everyone watched Didion eat her grilled-cheese sandwich. Joan Didion’s ‘South and West’ is a reminder of what the journalist could do 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z Daum’s book opens with a quote from Didion: “The half-truths, repeated, authenticated themselves.” A Liberal Uneasy in the World of #MeToo Feminism 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Rogers has a fine radar for the vulnerable points; Didion, the master modernist writer, died not long after. Maggie Rogers’s Higher Calling 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z In the current movie season there is an inside-baseball movie about politics — Ms. Didion’s subject and still the favored locus for this kind of examination — in the form of George Clooney’s “Ides of March.” ?Moneyball,? ?Ides of March? Contain Inside Information 2011-10-09T03:17:20Z Dunne says the film will be peppered with archival footage and will include a lot of Didion reading from her work, as well as interviews with the historical figures she wrote about. Joan Didion documentary: Griffin Dunne on telling his aunt's story 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Self-servingly, I think Joan Didion is correct when she says that to our lifelong mates, our faces are frozen in time as they were when we met. Farewell to my face: I’m middle-aged and I look it — but don’t ask me to like it 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z It frets that Didion is precious not because she looks so chic in front of that white Corvette, but because of her perfect sentences and the hard-thinking mind that made them. From literary heavyweight to lifestyle brand: exploring the cult of Joan Didion 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z There is Ms. Didion, steady eyed and brandishing a cigarette, in a variety of poses with her Corvette Stingray, potent images now etched into the collective consciousness. Julian Wasser, the ‘Photographer Laureate’ of L.A., Dies at 89 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z The performance I saw took place in a private townhouse on the Upper East Side, about a dozen blocks from where Didion lived. Review: ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’ Gets Joan Didion’s Intention Just Right 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z For his trouble, an unnamed Democratic superdelegate, while talking to Didion, likened Jackson to a "terrorist." Joan Didion exposed political stories America is still telling itself in order to live 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z To bend a famous Joan Didion quote to the subject at hand, We tell ourselves stories in order to enjoy the trampolinist. Olympics secret: They’re not about sports 2012-07-26T20:20:00Z “The thing I remember from the book was the way in which Didion’s grief would manifest itself in the most mundane moments. Eating felt like the right thing.” David Lowery on why he made A Ghost Story: 'I was freaking out, having an existential crisis' 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z This description, which Ms. Didion did not contest, could describe the archetypal heroine of her novels. Joan Didion, ‘New Journalist’ Who Explored Culture and Chaos, Dies at 87 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z In the case of a chronic memoirist like Didion, it's this exact space that presents the greatest opportunity for a biographer to tell the stories that, to paraphrase Didion, allowed her stories to live. The best part of the new Joan Didion bio 'The Last Love Song'? Joan Didion 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Revisiting Didion’s work now provides a familiar joy, as well as a reminder of her prescience. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z I also read a lot of Joan Didion. Stirring Up a Family From Scratch 2011-01-30T02:13:00Z It's something of a paradox: Didion makes clarity and distance feel intimate, often leaving blank spots. The best part of the new Joan Didion bio 'The Last Love Song'? Joan Didion 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Didion’s latest essay collection, “Let Me Tell You What I Mean,” gathers 12 pieces spanning more than three decades, from 1968 to 2000. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z Joan Didion's unadorned prose is a huge influence. ArtsBeat: L.A. Story: Karolina Waclawiak Talks About Her First Novel 2012-07-25T19:39:15Z For an ad campaign in 2015 that went viral, she convinced the then eighty-year-old writer Joan Didion to pose in a basic black sweater and large sunglasses. What Is Lost in Hedi Slimane’s Celine 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z So much of the mythos of “The Year of Magical Thinking” is predicated on the ideal Didion-Dunne marriage, and this sort of pretext to it illuminates something we didn’t know about Didion before. Joan Didion gets out of town in 'South and West' — and finds only fragments 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z The archive includes condolence letters Didion received after the deaths of Dunne, in 2003, and their daughter, Quintana Roo, two years later. New York Public Library Acquires Joan Didion’s Papers 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z "Joan Didion is incredibly veiled and meticulous," says Daum, a graduate of Vassar College who now lives in Los Angeles, where she writes a weekly column for the LA Times. Confessions in new women's lit: Emily Gould, Meghan Daum and Sloane Crosley 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z “She liked the place empty,” Ms. Didion writes. Dance Review: Meg Stuart?s ?Blessed,? at New York Live Arts - Review 2012-01-14T00:28:29Z Didion herself seems to have added only two brief prefatory notes, which give the barest context and are inexplicably dated 10 years apart, in 2006 and 2016. Joan Didion gets out of town in 'South and West' — and finds only fragments 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z For the most part, this thoughtful and ambitious biography remains focused on Ms. Didion’s writing, using her life to shed light on her highly autobiographical work. Review: ‘The Last Love Song,’ a Biography of Joan Didion 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z No doubt Didion has now decided to publish “South and West,” two excerpts from her notebooks — written in the 1970s — because they similarly shed light on the current political moment. Past, Present and Future Collide in Joan Didion’s ‘South and West’ 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z California was a joke to literary New Yorkers; it was, as Joan Didion once put it, a place where it was “easy to Dial-a-Devotion but hard to buy a book.” Post critic Carolyn See stood up to tastemakers and became one of her own 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z The chilling thing is, some of the attitudes about race and outsiders that Didion chronicles here also sound a lot like attitudes expressed by some Trump supporters during the 2016 campaign. Past, Present and Future Collide in Joan Didion’s ‘South and West’ 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z Didion's essays, like Vidal's, not only capture the reality of their time, but also undress ugly truths of the American experience, and the use of power more broadly, that make them, unfortunately, timeless. Joan Didion exposed political stories America is still telling itself in order to live 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z He quotes Joan Didion: “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” Jonah Lehrer returns with 'A Book About Love.' Can it rescue his reputation? 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Didion’s pen is like a periscope onto the creative mind — and, as this collection demonstrates, it always has been. Joan Didion Revisits the Past Once More 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z In The Year of Magical Thinking, an account of her first year of widowhood, Joan Didion wrote of "how open we are to the persistent message that we can avert death". Say Her Name by Francisco Goldman ? review 2011-08-05T21:55:03Z Didion famously interviewed one of the Manson girl murderers while she was awaiting trial; she also depicted drug-addled toddlers in California. Quarantine book club: Reading for mental health in a plague year 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z But one day I was reading the biographical note in one of Joan Didion's books – I was really into her – and I saw she'd grown up in Sacramento. A life in writing: Vendela Vida 2011-07-08T21:55:12Z Als rejected the argument that Didion’s background undercut her ability to write about this ethnically and economically diverse part of the country. Joan Didion and the Western Spirit 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Over the course of the 90-minute work, this structure, designed by the P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S architectural firm, will represent several locales, including the Los Angeles home Ms. Didion lived in during the period covered by her essay. Review: Joan Didion’s ‘The White Album,’ Now in Living Color 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z The list of writers who have attempted to capture the city’s many beguiling contradictions is long and varied: Raymond Chandler, Joan Didion, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathanael West, Charles Bukowski, Eve Babitz. Finding Yourself in Los Angeles 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z But I would pair Didion with a writer from a community on the opposite side of the metaphorical tracks. Read Your Way Around Los Angeles 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z It seems reductive to tie Didion so tightly to death, but it’s there even in her recipe book. Frozen in time: Joan Didion in her California kitchen, October 1972 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z Everywhere Ms. Didion went, it seemed, she found the identical set of circumstances: looming chaos, an atmosphere saturated with dread and absurdities described by unwitting participants in clichéd language indicated by quotation marks. Joan Didion, ‘New Journalist’ Who Explored Culture and Chaos, Dies at 87 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Few writers have more movingly captured despair in the treatment of home than Joan Didion. Who owns patriotism, the left or the right? American artists know the answer 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z There is no mistaking, at the mention of plastic hydrangeas, that one is reading Joan Didion. Joan Didion Revisits the Past Once More 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z “The city burning is Los Angeles’s deepest image of itself,” Joan Didion wrote in 1967. ‘Bring Your Own Brigade’ Review: Some Say the World Will End in Fire 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Maybe every writer is doomed to have their tritest sentence become their most-tweeted, but in Joan Didion’s case, it feels particularly unfair that “we tell ourselves stories in order to live” has become so ubiquitous. From literary heavyweight to lifestyle brand: exploring the cult of Joan Didion 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z The death of Joan Didion steals from the United States not only one of its best literary artists, but also one of its most astute political analysts. Joan Didion exposed political stories America is still telling itself in order to live 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z At the “Deep Throat” premiere, for instance, Joyce bumps into Joan Didion, a celebrity sighting that impresses her more than either Alan. Review: ‘Minx’ Returns, Confident and Fully Exposed 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z While working at Vogue, Didion took a correspondence course in shopping-center theory and fantasized about building her own mall, which would include Chinese restaurants, Mylar kites and “bands of small girls playing tambourine.” ‘Meet Me by the Fountain’ Takes a Tour of the Mall 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z So as he chronicles Didion's family history and youth in Sacramento, he is rehashing her memoir "Where I Was From." The best part of the new Joan Didion bio 'The Last Love Song'? Joan Didion 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z The patron saint of the personal essay is Joan Didion. This Book of Essays by the Head Writer of ‘Inside Amy Schumer’ Is Hilarious 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z Every generation has its hypocrites and I’m grateful for funny journalists like Didion, Ephron and Monroe. Simon Rich: By the Book 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z And Didion called some of the movement’s methods “Stalinist.” Ten Women Whose Tongues and Pens Were as ‘Sharp’ as Knives 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z But it is just that emptiness that allows for Didion’s fawning. Waking from the John Wayne dream: Columbus and Jackson are dead, but America’s war against Indigenous people lives on 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z From Didion to Bugliosi to the dozens, if not hundreds, of artists who have kept him present, the creepy crawl abides. Why we won’t let Charles Manson die 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z I mean, Joan Didion got her start at Vogue. ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ Review: An Adaptation That Needs Tailoring 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z In truth, part of what made Didion extraordinary is how she appealed to so many different audiences, and that extended beyond geography. Joan Didion and the Western Spirit 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Last year the luxury giant Céline raised eyebrows by introducing the octogenarian Joan Didion as the face of the brand; in its fall advertising, Dolce & Gabbana prominently featured a pair of wizened nonnas. Pirelli’s Reality Check: Portraying Beauty at Any Age 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z And second, Didion has spent half her life in New York. The best part of the new Joan Didion bio 'The Last Love Song'? Joan Didion 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Or is it here because our current political phantasmagoria calls for the kind of insights Didion produced in the past? Joan Didion gets out of town in 'South and West' — and finds only fragments 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z At home in Chicago, Ms. Abloh has a table in her bedroom stacked with books, including multiple copies of Joan Didion’s memoir “The Year of Magical Thinking,” about the period after her husband’s death. Shannon Abloh Is Ready to Talk 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z It was two years after the Watts uprising, but Didion wasn’t writing about race and reckoning, she was creating a poetically apocalyptic image of the city and, by extension, California. ‘Bring Your Own Brigade’ Review: Some Say the World Will End in Fire 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z “There is some Joan Didion quality to her voice, detached but not uninterested, with a conspiratorial tone that makes her a very compelling storyteller.” That Voice You’re Hearing? It Might Be Hers. 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Her listlessness reinforced my conclusion that Didion will be best remembered for her autobiographical nonfiction where she crisply parses and delineates her feelings and observations. Review | A new collection of Joan Didion’s work reminds us that she is her most memorable character 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z But her Didion has that same sharp cerebral quality and that same destabilized vulnerability, along with a subtle, charismatic warmth. Review: ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’ Gets Joan Didion’s Intention Just Right 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z Didion, who now resides on Manhattan’s genteel Upper East Side in a “cavernous” apartment, would, of course, be placed firmly in the latter category. From literary heavyweight to lifestyle brand: exploring the cult of Joan Didion 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z By the time the era ended for most people — Ms. Didion pinpoints the day as Aug. 9, 1969, when the Manson murders occurred — that mandate was just beginning to lose its grip. Review: Joan Didion’s ‘The White Album,’ Now in Living Color 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Because he didn’t know her address, he said, he sent it to Robert B. Silvers and Barbara Epstein, co-founders and editors of The New York Review of Books, where Didion was a contributor. The Portrait Hung in Joan Didion’s Home. But Who Painted It? 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z There is almost nothing of haphazard daily life in Didion’s work, no sense of accident or chance. Joan Didion gets out of town in 'South and West' — and finds only fragments 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z There’s the great Didion line: “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” “Lying to make life bearable”: Cheryl Strayed interviews memoirist Rob Roberge 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z Joan Didion called The Easter Parade "Yates's best novel", and it's my favourite, too. Richard Yates and Easter's rising despair 2010-04-01T13:00:00Z For years, she was the interviews editor for the literary magazine The Believer, talking to everyone from Dave Hickey to Joan Didion. Sheila Heti Is Still Asking Questions 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z Here is a look at five films by or about Didion that are available to stream. Five Joan Didion Movies You Can Stream Right Now 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z In breezy biographical chapters on 10 writers, including Susan Sontag, Joan Didion and Pauline Kael, Dean explores their successes and failures and their relationship to feminism. New in Paperback: ‘The Strange Order of Things,’ ‘The Pisces’ 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z And she makes some cogent, if not exactly revelatory, points about the depth of Didion’s influence. In defense of Katie Roiphe 2012-09-04T19:52:00Z Didion, though, deserves so much more than being a droppable name for “every cool girl you know”, or a meme-friendly symbol, flashed by the fashionable and fashionably disaffected to gird their intellectual credibility. From literary heavyweight to lifestyle brand: exploring the cult of Joan Didion 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z Didion has always been a master of persona rather than confession, per se. Joan Didion gets out of town in 'South and West' — and finds only fragments 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z In that sense, it’s only fitting that Redgrave, who played Didion in “The Year of Magical Thinking” -- a one-woman show -- should take the stage again to portray her friend. Joan Didion's 'Blue Nights' to be performed by Vanessa Redgrave 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z In terms of temperament, she’s something close to rock’s Joan Didion. Review: Chrissie Hynde’s ‘Reckless’ Details a Rocker’s Life 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z A student of the New Journalists — his title pays homage to Joan Didion’s “The White Album” — Ellis has played in all his work with his shifting identity and the cross-pollination between fact and fiction. Bret Easton Ellis Has Calmed Down. He Thinks You Should, Too. 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z He was carrying a backpack and talked about Studs Terkel and asked if I wanted to borrow Joan Didion’s “Slouching Towards Bethlehem.” He Cared About Me, So I Broke Up With Him 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z "She presents herself not as an authority but as the friend who has 'figured it out,'" Didion wrote. Martha Stewart's brand has always been subversive 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z Regarding “Play It as It Lays,” he called it Didion “vomiting up her life.” A literary feud for the ages: What fueled the bad blood between Dominick Dunne and “the Didions” 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z As a writer, not a "political junkie," Didion crashed the party by exposing the fictive status of the popular story. Joan Didion exposed political stories America is still telling itself in order to live 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z People send him “The Year of Magical Thinking,” and it does nothing for him except make him compare himself unfavorably to Joan Didion. Three New Stand-Up Specials, Three Very Different Approaches 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z The New York Public Library has acquired Joan Didion’s papers from her joint archive with her husband, John Gregory Dunne. ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ Celebrates 20 Years on Air 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z Pace Joan Didion, it’s not merely that we tell ourselves stories in order to live; Hazzard shows us that we tell ourselves other people’s stories in order to form our own. A Modern Classic Addresses Elemental Questions About Love and Power 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z “I read Joan Didion’s ‘The Year of Magical Thinking,’ and it really resonated with me,” Ms. Chiquet said. Maureen Chiquet’s Move From Chanel to Self-Empowerment 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z This is a more overtly distraught performance of Didion than Vanessa Redgrave’s on Broadway or Helen Hedman’s here at Studio Theatre. Kathleen Turner returns to Arena in Didion’s ‘Magical Thinking’ 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z As a teenager, Ms. Didion typed out chapters from Hemingway novels to see how they worked. Joan Didion, ‘New Journalist’ Who Explored Culture and Chaos, Dies at 87 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Where Didion took a fundamentally dark view of Los Angeles, Babitz had a feel for her hometown’s charms and celebrated them. A Breezy Look at Eve Babitz, a Writer With a Born Feel for the Charms of Los Angeles 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z As Joan Didion observed, it’s best “to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.” Summer Thrillers: Daring Escapes and Other Acts of Derring-Do 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z A Didion completist might think she has a whole universe of reference materials at her fingertips. Joan Didion gets out of town in 'South and West' — and finds only fragments 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Simple enough, but it suddenly gave a new twist to Ms. Didion’s large body of nonfiction, much of it written in the first person. Critic’s Notebook: Lincoln Center Screens Bygone Lieder Performances 2014-02-07T22:15:35Z The pleasures of this short book, rather, are found in observing the South through Didion’s eyes. The South (and the West) through Joan Didion’s Eyes 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z In between, with a rapidity that’s startling, Didion’s stage adaptation of “The Year of Magical Thinking” arrived on Broadway, in March 2007. Review: ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’ Gets Joan Didion’s Intention Just Right 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z Ms. Didion did so daintily, the rock-star essayist now visibly a lioness in winter at the age of 78. ArtsBeat: Old Friends Help New York Review Celebrate 50 Years 2013-02-06T18:26:41Z When she is homesick, it’s not the LA of the movies she longs for, but Joan Didion’s version. Zoe Kazan: ‘There’s so much sexual harassment on set' 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z Ms. Didion will also attend, and the jazz trumpeter Jimmy Owens will perform. Spare Times Listings for Nov. 14-20 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Bollen spoke to me about the art and craft of the murder mystery, how interviewing Didion and Mailer became his MFA, and about how shepherd’s pie isn’t always what you think. In “Orient,” the North Fork of Long Island gets the Agatha Christie treatment 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z Writer, reporter, and cultural critic Joan Didion has died, according to her publisher Knopf and others. Joan Didion, acclaimed author and iconic literary journalist, has died 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z For a writer like Didion, with such a mastery of language, such a defined style, “Hello, there” might seem an unlikely object of focus. Waking from the John Wayne dream: Columbus and Jackson are dead, but America’s war against Indigenous people lives on 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z This narrator shares a telling quote by Didion: “We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images.” Refugees, Ghosts and a Story About Stories 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z It is a marvelous tour of another era of magazine writing, before Mailer, Didion, Capote and Wolfe transformed the medium with literary ambition and electric Kool-Aid. TIME Recommends: Forward Run to this Wolcott Gibbs Anthology 2011-10-25T14:34:09Z Ms. Dean is an associate professor at the University of Tennessee who teaches a creative nonfiction course featuring the work of writers like Joan Didion, Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson and Norman Mailer. ‘Leaving Orbit,’ a Pensive Ode to Closing of a Frontier 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z One program to explore is the Spotlight on Documentary, which features several worthwhile offerings, including “Arthur Miller: Writer” and “Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold,” two views from the inside. New York Film Festival Is a Feast for True Believers 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z How would Joan Didion write about that scene at the party? What everyone gets wrong about Hunter S. Thompson 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z More than that, this book illuminates Didion’s later work, containing the seeds of both “Political Fictions” and her elliptical 2003 book on California and the West, “Where I Was From.” Past, Present and Future Collide in Joan Didion’s ‘South and West’ 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z Her first book – and her only work of non-fiction to date – owes a tangible debt to Didion's brand of subjective journalism, in particular to her 1968 collection Slouching Towards Bethlehem. A life in writing: Vendela Vida 2011-07-08T21:55:12Z Clark on the paintings of Poussin or Joan Didion on the Hoover Dam — but he moves with a hummingbird energy, flitting to the next writer, the next effect he loves. A Witty and Original Writer Shares His Love for the Essay 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z Seven years ago, Vanessa Redgrave teamed up with Joan Didion on a Broadway adaptation of the latter’s 2005 National Book Award-winning memoir “The Year of Magical Thinking.” Joan Didion's 'Blue Nights' to be performed by Vanessa Redgrave 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z And then there were the photographs of Joan Didion, commissioned by Time Inc. in 1968, shortly after her essay collection “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” appeared. Julian Wasser, the ‘Photographer Laureate’ of L.A., Dies at 89 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z I read Joan Didion's, "The Year of Magical Thinking," and there was a couple of grief counseling books. “What's wrong with being 57?”: Supermodel Paulina Porizkova questions the value of youth in beauty 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z It’s hard to argue that Didion and Dunne’s films are palpably them any more than one can touch an actor onscreen as he coils his tongue around Didion’s diction. Five Joan Didion Movies You Can Stream Right Now 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z Because Didion was so prolific and accomplished, it was always inevitable that certain aspects of her oeuvre would overshadow others. Joan Didion exposed political stories America is still telling itself in order to live 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z Inside the envelope, Didion tucked a magazine clipping showing a “little black dress” she had recently bought, which had proved “a smashing success.” New York Public Library Acquires Joan Didion’s Papers 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Roberts is fond of literary fiction, memoirs and authors like Joan Didion and Ariel Levy. Perspective | Celebrity book clubs are the new big thing. But are the picks worth reading? 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z To paraphrase Yeats, by way of Joan Didion, the center does not appear to be holding. "This isn’t 2020": Experts "have serious doubts that the 2024 election will go democracy’s way" 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z Ideal for fans of memoir, criticism or just fierce writing, Myriam Gurba’s essay collection takes on sacred cows like Joan Didion, personal legacies of abuse, Mexican literature and the inescapable marine layer. 18 best nonfiction books for fans of Madonna, memoirs or cultural histories 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z Hers are the films they’ll watch over and over in their rooms — rites of passage, as important as any Joan Didion essay or Sylvia Plath poem, that have transcended generations. Sofia Coppola turns her lens on an American icon: Priscilla Presley 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z Jurors found Derrick Clark, vice president of operations at Didion Milling, and Shawn Mesner, a former food safety superintendent at the company, guilty of multiple safety, environmental and fraud charges on Friday. Federal jury convicts two employees in fatal Wisconsin corn mill explosion 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z His article in Harper’s has something of Joan Didion’s wry bemusement about the vacuity of modern celebrity. L.A. tech reporter Taylor Lorenz falls down the influencer rabbit hole 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z That always seemed an ironic coincidence worthy of Joan Didion, another great California woman and contemporary of Feinstein. Opinion: Don't let Sen. Feinstein's conventional demeanor and centrist politics obscure her not-so-moderate legacy 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z Joan Didion wrote two months before the Iraq invasion that 9/11 had been used "to justify the reconception of America's correct role in the world as one of initiating and waging virtually perpetual war." A short history of America's disaster: How 9/11 bred the endless war on terror 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z Nearly 50 years later, Joan Didion referenced his verse in “Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” a tour through the existential crisis of the 1960s. She followed her 'doppelganger' down the rabbit hole. What Naomi Klein found there 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z The two men are the latest in a growing list of Didion employees found guilty in association with the 2017 explosion that killed five people at the company’s Cambria corn mill. Federal jury convicts two employees in fatal Wisconsin corn mill explosion 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z Daugherty has also been around the block; he is the author of biographies of Joan Didion, Joseph Heller and Donald Barthelme. 30 books we can't wait to read this fall 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z Simon & Schuster did publish Philip Roth, Graham Greene and Joan Didion, among others, and Snyder played a direct role in making the company a favorite home for the inside story on Washington. Richard Snyder, ‘warrior-king’ of publishing who presided over rise of Simon & Schuster, dead at 90 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z In a single sentence, Didion had captured the essence of a quickly calcified set of assumptions that few mainstream journalists were willing to question. A short history of America's disaster: How 9/11 bred the endless war on terror 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z Levy brings up a Joan Didion quote that’s in her reading copy of “August Blue”: “I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be.” How Deborah Levy's self-soothing COVID-lockdown habit inspired a virtuosic novel 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z At least five other Didion employees have pleaded guilty or been convicted of charges including concealing environmental violations, lying to investigators and falsifying cleaning logs. Federal jury convicts two employees in fatal Wisconsin corn mill explosion 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z Pochoda’s answer is the incendiary “Sing Her Down,” a narcocorrido-infused crime tale that nods to westerns, Shakespeare, Greek tragedy and Joan Didion, among others. How author Ivy Pochoda replaced the dead girl trope with the song of female rage 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z Joan Didion’s ‘Play It as It Lays’ is the third most popular L.A. book among writers surveyed by The Times. 'Paved Paradise' explains why parking is both a local nuisance and a global blight 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z Joan Didion’s ‘Play It as It Lays’ is one of the most popular L.A. novels among writers surveyed by The Times. The Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z I came late, let me admit it, to the novels of Joan Didion. Why Joan Didion's fiction matters more than you (or I) ever knew 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z Didion Milling pleaded guilty in September to charges that its employees falsified environmental and safety compliance records for years leading up to the explosion. Federal jury convicts two employees in fatal Wisconsin corn mill explosion 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z Everyone has their favorite Didion, and many survey respondents opted for “The White Album,” focused more tightly on Southern California. The Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf: Essays 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z It is the Santa Ana wind — more than earthquakes, for some reason — that bears omens of catastrophe, that “shows us how close to the edge we are,” from Madame Didion again. 'Paradise with a lobotomy' or 'just a big parking lot'? Pick your fave L.A. insult 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z In 1982, Didion spent two weeks in the country before going on to publish “Salvador,” in which she declared, “Terror is the given of the place.” How the Salvadoran diaspora became a literary juggernaut 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z This was the second of Didion’s five novels, which for more than 30 years she published pretty much in tandem with her nonfiction, alternating nearly book to book. Why Joan Didion's fiction matters more than you (or I) ever knew 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z And Joan Didion, the acclaimed writer, was a sartorial footnote at the trial. Linda Kasabian, 73, Dies; Lookout Testified Against Charles Manson 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z “None of the other books on my list exist without Didion’s classic,” writes Tod Goldberg. The Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf: Essays 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z She is often mentioned in connection with writer Joan Didion’s classic 1979 essay “The White Album,” in which Didion tells of buying a dress for Kasabian to wear on her first day on the stand. Linda Kasabian, Charles Manson follower who helped send him to prison, dies at 73 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z The Hammer Museum just concluded an exhibition titled “Joan Didion: What She Means,” which displays the work of renowned Salvadoran artist Ronald Morán. How the Salvadoran diaspora became a literary juggernaut 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z I’ve come to think that if “Where I Was From” had been Didion’s final book, it would have bestowed upon her career a marked circularity. Why Joan Didion's fiction matters more than you (or I) ever knew 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z And a correction: Friday’s newsletter misspelled the surname of Joan Didion’s husband. Your Monday Briefing 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z He and Didion also collaborated on several screenplays, including “The Panic in Needle Park” and the 1976 remake of “A Star Is Born.” Didion-Dunne archives acquired by New York Public Library 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z Didion archive: The New York Public Library has acquired the joint literary archives of Joan Didion and her husband, John Gregory Dunne. We’re Adding New Songs to Our California Soundtrack 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z The New York Public Library has acquired the personal literary archives of Joan Didion and her husband John Donne. Your Friday Briefing 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z At the same time, it was in her fiction that Didion first began to widen her perspective, to explore imperialism and the excesses of American power. Why Joan Didion's fiction matters more than you (or I) ever knew 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z Both Ellis and the Bret of “The Shards” are Joan Didion fans, and her chilly, measured prose is a clear influence. Can Bret Easton Ellis bring back the (fictional) glory days? 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z Malcolm is a literary monolith, a more stony, icy Joan Didion. How Janet Malcolm, at death's door, finally took on her toughest subject — herself 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Now, only a few miles from that infamous merge spot, memories and connections to Didion, a fifth-generation Californian and iconic writer, fill a sprawling show of visual art and literature. Remembering Joan Didion, beyond her words 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z “I wrote ‘Tár’ for her because of this very rich conversation she and I had 10-plus years ago about a project we wanted to do together that Joan Didion and I had written. Todd Field uses the 'genius' of Cate Blanchett to tackle the abuse of power in 'Tár' 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z There’s a confluence here with Didion’s own history, particularly her daughter’s life and death. Why Joan Didion's fiction matters more than you (or I) ever knew 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z And the flatness of affect that defined the protagonists of “Less Than Zero,” inspired in part by Didion’s “Play It As It Lays,” once again guides Ellis’ characterization. Can Bret Easton Ellis bring back the (fictional) glory days? 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z Didion plunged into the pain as deeply as she could, Malcolm only as deeply as she dared. How Janet Malcolm, at death's door, finally took on her toughest subject — herself 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z In “Joan Didion: What She Means” at UCLA’s Hammer Museum, the first exhibition about Didion since her December 2021 death, her presence and world are evoked in many ways. Remembering Joan Didion, beyond her words 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z The origins of a mysterious painting in Joan Didion’s house have finally been revealed. California Begins Service Program for College Students 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z Even now, I can’t say I disagree with that assessment — when it comes to Didion, at any rate. Why Joan Didion's fiction matters more than you (or I) ever knew 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z Mystery painting: Who painted an arresting portrait that hung in Joan Didion’s home? Trump’s Culpability 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z Plus, a horror show at the Ahmanson and Didion at the Hammer, in our weekly arts newsletter. Your ultimate guide to 'Nutcrackers,' 'Christmas Carols' and other holiday shows in SoCal 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z The gallery space is filled with paintings, sculptures, photographs and videos from a wide variety of artists, building a portrait of Didion as in a collage. Remembering Joan Didion, beyond her words 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z Didion, a Sacramento native, died in December 2021 due to complications from Parkinson’s disease at age 87 in her New York home. Sunglasses for $27,000? A desk for $60,000? Joan Didion's estate sale made big bucks 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z “Play It as It Lays” appeared in 1970; the story of an actor, Maria Wyeth, who is in the process of decompensating, it is regarded as Didion’s “Hollywood” book. Why Joan Didion's fiction matters more than you (or I) ever knew 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z Did Didion, a writer whose words frequently probed and destabilized established narratives, keep a basket of seashells in her bathroom? Joan Didion remains elusive in a Hammer Museum show inspired by her life 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Joan Didion: Hundreds of Joan Didion’s furnishings and personal items will be sold at auction this month, offering fans the opportunity to acquire a piece of her legacy. Newsom, a Leader on Climate, Fights a Lyft-Backed Electric Vehicle Measure 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Als, who developed a friendship with Didion after he met her in the mid-1990s, suggested the idea of an exhibition to Didion in 2019. Remembering Joan Didion, beyond her words 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z Didion, whose work is the “elusive” subject of a new exhibit at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, was a major influence on the literary world. Sunglasses for $27,000? A desk for $60,000? Joan Didion's estate sale made big bucks 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z This quality of drift has less to do with Hollywood than it does with Didion’s inner climate, the centrality in her work of atomization and narrative breakdown. Why Joan Didion's fiction matters more than you (or I) ever knew 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z There’s something charmingly banal about that idea — the sort of detail that might appear in a Joan Didion essay about murder and the Santa Ana winds. Joan Didion remains elusive in a Hammer Museum show inspired by her life 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z The chosen title, “Love is the Given of the Place,” borrowed from Roberto Lovato’s memoir, repurposes Joan Didion’s reference to El Salvador: “Terror is the given of the place.” Google Street View galvanized this artist to create an emotive blueprint of South L.A. 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z He had previously curated shows on writers James Baldwin and Toni Morrison and wanted to bring Didion’s work and life to a museum in California. Remembering Joan Didion, beyond her words 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z |
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