| 单词 | Joan Didion |
| 例句 | 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 How would Joan Didion write about that scene at the party? What everyone gets wrong about Hunter S. Thompson 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z 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 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 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 When East Coast literati ask themselves this question, they often answer: Joan Didion. Read Your Way Around Los Angeles 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 Warning: this is the part where I quote Joan Didion. Meryl Streep’s Twenties, and My Own 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 "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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 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 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 No contemporary writer offers perspective like Joan Didion. TIME Recommends: Joan Didion's Blue Nights 2011-11-08T15:30:05Z 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 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 I guess, like, Hunter Thompson or Joan Didion or something like that. Did we learn anything from the hippies? 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 mean, Joan Didion got her start at Vogue. ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ Review: An Adaptation That Needs Tailoring 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 “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 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 "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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 I also read a lot of Joan Didion. Stirring Up a Family From Scratch 2011-01-30T02:13:00Z 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 It features interviews with editor Robert Silvers and author Joan Didion. TV highlights: Penguin makes his way back to the city on ‘Gotham’ 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 And a correction: Friday’s newsletter misspelled the surname of Joan Didion’s husband. Your Monday Briefing 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z 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 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 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 “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 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 Mystery painting: Who painted an arresting portrait that hung in Joan Didion’s home? Trump’s Culpability 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z An exhibition at the Hammer Museum inspired by Joan Didion features historic objects as well as art. Sunglasses for $27,000? A desk for $60,000? Joan Didion's estate sale made big bucks 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z 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 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 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 The writer Joan Didion, who died last year at 87, never hired a decorator. Affirmative Action’s Future 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z We lost Joan Didion last year and now Mike Davis. D.J. Waldie, a onetime critic of Mike Davis, praises his immense influence 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z To paraphrase the late Joan Didion, they were offering analysis in which “measurable cerebral activity is virtually absent.” Column: Britain's prime minister followed the GOP's economic plan. She lost her job in record time. 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z After work I went straight to my local bookstore and purchased a copy of these landmark critical essays on women artists, with an introduction by Joan Didion. Review: How Elizabeth Hardwick taught a young Black critic to read, write and laugh 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Catherine Brobeck studied Russian in college so she could read Tolstoy in his native language, and more recently was working on a guide of Joan Didion’s Los Angeles. Two podcasters set out to read every Agatha Christie book. It became much more than that 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z Didion’s legacy: An ambitious exhibition examining Joan Didion’s life, and created with her blessing, will open on Oct. What to Know About California’s November Election 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z “I was rarely fortunate enough to publish Joan Didion,” Remnick admitted. In a New York cathedral, Joan Didion is memorialized — as a Californian 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Since the latter’s release 16 years ago, he has remained busy, though none of his projects, including collaborations with Joan Didion and Jonathan Franzen, have been realized. The 14 fall awards contenders set to open before November 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z I went to parties and Joan Didion was standing there; I answered the phone and it was Bill Styron calling. Review: How Elizabeth Hardwick taught a young Black critic to read, write and laugh 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z The late Sacramento-born writer Joan Didion once described the Inland Empire as “a harsher California” plagued by nerve-racking Santa Ana winds, deadly wildfires, a boom-and-bust economy and a menacing emptiness in some stretches. In the vastness of the Inland Empire, people of color find 'peace in these troubled times' 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z “Innocence ends,” wrote Joan Didion, “when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.” Perspective | Kay Sage found love in Europe. So why does death haunt her paintings? After the memorial, I wanted to find out what her friends and admirers thought: Was Joan Didion a New Yorker or a Californian? In a New York cathedral, Joan Didion is memorialized — as a Californian 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z “We tell ourselves stories in order to live,” the famed bit of Joan Didion irony from her essay “The White Album,” is a warning about the dangerous power of the quick and easy narrative. Opinion | No place for absolutism in the gun-safety debate 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z By the way, Joan Didion loved her ’69 Corvette Stingray. Why is Justin Chang dissing 'Downton' sequel? 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Blair says she looked toward the late author and fellow MS patient Joan Didion’s example when she received her diagnosis. Review | Selma Blair shares stories of abuse and MS, but she doesn’t want pity 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z “Joan Didion: What She Means,” organized by New Yorker contributor Hilton Als, is “an exhibition as portrait, a narration of the life of one artist by another,” as the museum describes it. Hammer Museum to honor Charles Gaines and Chase Strangio at 2022 Gala in the Garden 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z Frequent visitor Joan Didion called it a place of “gaiety and wit.” Review | Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward: Unlikely couple and artistic force 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z An amusing subplot has Nancy’s son, Nick, working on a musical about Joan Didion, with whom he has an obsession “that falls somewhere between adorable and unhealthy.” Review | For fans of ‘Veep,’ Grant Ginder’s new novel is just the thing 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z Abdi Nazemian: The first person that comes to mind is Joan Didion, who really captured the city’s magical contradictions so beautifully. Can an L.A. writer be defined? We asked L.A. writers to debate the subject 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Writer Susan Straight traverses a California different than the one Joan Didion observed yet views it through eyes partly focused by her Didion’s writing. Travels and pop-ins with Susan Straight, bard of overlooked California 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z The late author Joan Didion said, “I’m totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter.” The owner of Bremerton Office Machine Company finds focus and fulfillment among timeworn typewriters — and their fans 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z This is the part when I am legally obligated to mention Raymond Chandler and Joan Didion. Column: Forget traffic and earthquakes: The Santa Anas are the worst part of life in L.A. 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z The New York Times called Playmakers “well written and well acted… professional football as observed by Joan Didion rather than John Madden.” The great football series the NFL got canceled 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z ‘Play It as It Lays’ Tuesday Weld plays a troubled actress, model and single mother in director Frank Perry’s under-appreciated 1972 adaptation of the bestseller by the late Joan Didion. Classic movies in SoCal: ‘Miracle Mile,’ ‘Malcolm X,’ ‘El Mariachi’ and more 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Joan Didion wrote in “Where I Was From” that Californians “did not believe that history could bloody the land, or even touch it,” but in “Mecca,” history is everywhere. Travels and pop-ins with Susan Straight, bard of overlooked California 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z Joan Didion, 87, died and so did a benchmark of clear-eyed consideration of American culture. Perspective | The reassurance of their light 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z Perhaps Joan Didion saw some other California in 1993, not the place where she was from, but something to be left by the side of the trail leading away from here. Op-Ed: What Joan Didion wrote about Lakewood in 1993 wasn't — isn't — the only story to tell 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z Sixteen Christmases ago, my parents gifted me a copy of “The Year of Magical Thinking” by Joan Didion. Appreciation: Joan Didion’s indelible study of grief gave me the tools to save myself 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z If so, for Joan Didion that item may have been a potato masher. Appreciation: How Joan Didion punctured California narratives about manifest destiny ... with a potato masher 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z He is the editor of “Joan Didion: The 1960s and 70s” and “Joan Didion: The 1980s and 90s” from Library of America. Appreciation: Like the rest of us, Joan Didion didn't have a plan. Why that made her great 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z Joan Didion would have tried to ask those questions, and to answer them. Democracy vs. fascism, part 1: What do those words mean — and do they describe this moment? 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z “Is it OK to leave flowers for Joan Didion?” Flowers for Didion: A California transplant says goodbye to her idol on a visit to New York 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z When Matthew Specktor decided to start writing in earnest as a college sophomore, Joan Didion was on his mind. 'Often imitated but rarely matched': Writers reflect on Joan Didion's impact 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z That’s where Joan Didion, who died this week at 87, began her story — with the moment her ancestors arrived at the end of the land. 'I have to look at flat horizons': Joan Didion on her apocalyptic California optimism 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z Early this year, Time magazine published an interview with Joan Didion that made me extremely happy. Perspective | Joan Didion was the essence of effortless cool, amid a life of loss and disillusionment 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z To use the Marxist term — something Joan Didion would likely never have done — our system is a "bourgeois democracy," now facing its inevitable moment of crisis. Democracy vs. fascism, part 1: What do those words mean — and do they describe this moment? 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z Nelson is a writer and the editor of “Slouching Towards Los Angeles: Living and Writing by Joan Didion’s Light.” Flowers for Didion: A California transplant says goodbye to her idol on a visit to New York 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z “Regardless of how people felt about her or her writing, you couldn’t write about California without somebody telling you, ‘Have you read Joan Didion?’” 'Often imitated but rarely matched': Writers reflect on Joan Didion's impact 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z Joan Didion, who died Thursday, left a seismic impact on the literary world and her home state of California. 'I have to look at flat horizons': Joan Didion on her apocalyptic California optimism 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z Column: Joan Didion, California and the enduring power of ‘our special history’ Joan Didion detached herself from Sacramento, but it shaped her view of California 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z And I assign my class the grand dame of California letters, Joan Didion. Column: Joan Didion, California and the enduring power of 'our special history' 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z California daughter Joan Didion, whose writings about her home state excavated and formed some of its most indelible myths, had died at her home in New York City. Flowers for Didion: A California transplant says goodbye to her idol on a visit to New York 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z Writers, readers, politicians and entertainment luminaries have taken to social media to honor renowned writer Joan Didion, who died Thursday morning at age 87 in her New York home due to complications from Parkinson’s disease. Gavin Newsom salutes Joan Didion, 'easily the best living writer in California' 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Writer Joan Didion is escorted to her seat after U.S. Writer Joan Didion, chronicler of contemporary American society, dies at 87 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Joan Didion continues to resonate in California, even with a generation nothing like her. Joan Didion detached herself from Sacramento, but it shaped her view of California 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Photos from the life of Joan Didion, who chronicled California, politics and sorrow in ‘Slouching Towards Bethlehem’ and ‘Year of Magical Thinking.’ Column: Joan Didion, California and the enduring power of 'our special history' 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Joan Didion, the revered author and essayist whose provocative social commentary and detached, methodical literary voice made her a uniquely clear-eyed critic of a uniquely turbulent time, has died. Joan Didion dead at 87 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Joan Didion was a culture bearer, a California Hall of Famer, and a Sacramento, California native. Gavin Newsom salutes Joan Didion, 'easily the best living writer in California' 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z “South and West: From a Notebook,” observations made while driving around the American South, came out in 2017, the same year nephew Griffin Dunne’s documentary “Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold” was released. Joan Didion, peerless prose stylist, dies at 87 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z She turned it into a play directed by David Hare and starring Vanessa Redgrave as the character named Joan Didion, which ran on Broadway in 2007. Joan Didion dead, writer chronicled American culture with cool detachment 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z I don’t remember my first actual encounter with Joan Didion’s work, only that I ate up most of her books in rapid succession. The way Eve Babitz wrote about art in Los Angeles was art in itself 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z Babitz was frequently compared to Joan Didion, who also channeled the spirit of Los Angeles in essays, though in style or affect they were near-opposites. Author Eve Babitz, who captured and embodied the culture of Los Angeles, dies at 78 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z California belonged to Joan Didion; we cherish her memory. Gavin Newsom salutes Joan Didion, 'easily the best living writer in California' 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Compared with her fellow cultural critics Joan Didion and Susan Sontag, Hardwick enjoyed a more understated degree of success. Review: Long overshadowed, Elizabeth Hardwick has a biography. She deserves even better 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z To paraphrase Joan Didion, we tell ourselves lies in order to live in California, and In-N-Out proves that. Column: What In-N-Out's vaccine standoff reveals about the California dream 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z As Joan Didion wrote more than 50 years ago, “The secret point of money and power . . . is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power’s sake . . . but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy.” Perspective | Offshore accounts aren’t for evading taxes. They’re for evading laws altogether. 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z I believed — as single, lovesick 20-somethings who have read too much Joan Didion tend to do — that there was nothing more New York than getting a drink by myself. ‘It Was a Warm Sunday Afternoon at a Bar Near the Brooklyn Waterfront.’ 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z “RIP Joan Didion,” tweeted Gay, who counts Didion’s seminal “Play It As It Lays” among her “favorite novels.” Gavin Newsom salutes Joan Didion, 'easily the best living writer in California' 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Alvin’s studies with Locklin included many hours outside class over beer, where the talk would range from Joan Didion and the Venerable Bede to music trivia “and life and everything else,” he said. The night L.A. rocker Dave Alvin was an English professor 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z His vaunted baby-shoes-never-worn simplicity is valuable — Joan Didion famously taught herself to write by copying his stories. Ken Burns' new Hemingway documentary doesn't give you a reason to read Hemingway 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z Joan Didion once remarked, “The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.” You've been waiting for a very L.A. experience. Here it is: Image magazine 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z Others include published text, such as a line from Joan Didion’s “The White Album.” Pandemic City: Doug Aitken, L.A. Dance Project and a COVID-19 'art encounter' 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z “Too much mourning for our heroes and our visionaries. And I know Miss Joan Didion wasnt black but ask almost ANY black lit girl and they’ll tell u she felt it.” Gavin Newsom salutes Joan Didion, 'easily the best living writer in California' 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Back in 1968, Joan Didion identified a problem with the mainstream media. Review: New volume brings together 12 Joan Didion essays 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z Joan Didion is one of America’s greatest writers. How the crises of 2021 and a new collection redeem Joan Didion's politics 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z “You know, sometimes I think I can’t think at all unless I’m behind my typewriter,” Joan Didion told an editor for Ms. magazine during an interview at the author’s Malibu home. Joan Didion's new collection of old essays holds the key to her 'shimmer' 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Yes, the metropolis might have inspired weirdly alternative realities from Thomas Pynchon and Joan Didion’s passages of dissociation along the 405, but really it was, we assured one another, Disneyland writ large. How Pico Iyer found L.A.'s beating heart at the L.A. Times Festival of Books 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z Deepest gratitude to Joan Didion for how she helped me during a brutal, dark time. Gavin Newsom salutes Joan Didion, 'easily the best living writer in California' 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z One of Biss’ critical subjects is the exemplar of this particular brand of essayist, Joan Didion. Review: Money talks, and people talk money, in unsparing essays on capitalism 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z “Holy Land” was acclaimed by many, including Joan Didion, for the mesmerizing energy of its set pieces. Review: 'Becoming Los Angeles' nails the city in ways big and small, as only D.J. Waldie can 2020-08-13T04:00:00Z Nelson is the editor of “Slouching Towards Los Angeles: Living and Writing by Joan Didion’s Light” and the co-author of “Judson: Innovation in Stained Glass.” Joan Didion's new collection of old essays holds the key to her 'shimmer' 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z The last book that made me cry The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion. Virginie Despentes: 'Charles Bukowski is my comfort read. He makes me feel good' 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z “Deepest gratitude to Joan Didion for how she helped me during a brutal, dark time. And that’s not even her best book! If you’ve yet to discover her, today’s a good day to do so.” Gavin Newsom salutes Joan Didion, 'easily the best living writer in California' 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Whereas Joan Didion wrote that we tell stories to live, Li delves into the ways our narratives bury the dead. Telling stories to bury the dead: Yiyun Li's novel about the deepest grief 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Joan Didion began “The White Album” with the line “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” Zoom plays? Sure, fine. But this theater critic doesn't need more stories, not now 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z This is the true context underlying the creeping sense of dread and imminent chaos famously evoked by Joan Didion in her 1979 essay collection, The White Album. Erased from utopia: the hidden history of LA's black and brown resistance 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z In my mind I’m like, ‘Oh, it’s Joan Didion, she wants me to lose 20 pounds.’ How Anne Hathaway and Dee Rees made Netflix's 'The Last Thing He Wanted' on their own terms 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z Dunne, husband of Joan Didion, disclosed James’ identity with the writer’s permission, according to accounts. Before 'American Dirt,' a 1980s literary hoax tested the limits of authenticity 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Anne Hathaway plays a veteran journalist who finds herself in the thick of the Iran-Contra scandal in an adaptation of the Joan Didion novel “The Last Thing He Wanted.” What’s on TV This Week: 'Washington,' 'Rocketman' and more 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Joan Didion is inescapable, an icon, and so essential to California’s story of itself that some even call her Los Angeles’ first public intellectual. Review: Writing in Didion's honor — and her shadow 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z “Netflix jumped in and saved it. But it was hard in that way. You think because it’s Joan Didion, like, of course — but nope.” Dee Rees and the Art of Surviving as a Black Female Director 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z Everywhere you look in Los Angeles, there are reminders of Joan Didion, from the hulking mansions of Los Feliz to our swaying palm trees arcing into the sky like fire crackers. Surf, schools, critters, comics and the Didion hive: 5 great book events this week 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Her latest film, “The Last Thing He Wanted,” an adaptation of the 1996 novel by Joan Didion and starring Anne Hathaway, premieres Monday night. Dee Rees on her Sundance return, adapting Joan Didion's 'The Last Thing He Wanted' 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z “The Last Thing He Wanted,” an adaptation of the 1996 novel by Joan Didion, finds Rees again working with Netflix, though it was not a given that she would return to the streaming service. Sundance 2020 may not match last year's deal frenzy. Here's why 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Joan Didion once advised writers to avoid the temptation of repeating a sentence construct that “works” too frequently. What does it mean to be "too far left" — and why are conservatives not scolded about centrism? 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z He is also inspired by Joan Didion’s new journalism, with its emphasis on an unvarnished examination of the writer herself as well as the subject of the writing. Review | A black writer on individualism, identity and indifference in Trump’s America 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z This week’s five essential book events showcase comic creators, wave riders and L.A. luminaries paying tribute to Joan Didion. Surf, schools, critters, comics and the Didion hive: 5 great book events this week 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Did you actually meet Joan Didion or communicate with her at all? Dee Rees on her Sundance return, adapting Joan Didion's 'The Last Thing He Wanted' 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z When asked about a new collection of Joan Didion’s work, editor David L. Ulin observes: “Her inner weather is not the cliché of the ‘sunny California.’ Newsletter: Book Club: Join Julie Andrews in L.A. 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z Once again Joan Didion whispers in the Southland’s collective ear. Joan Didion's California captured in sweeping new collection 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Joan Didion once wrote, “The city burning is Los Angeles’s deepest image of itself.” Column: Why did no one warn the housekeepers about the Getty fire? 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Most famously, the writer Joan Didion mused on the Santa Anas in her essay “Los Angeles Notebook.” ‘Devil Winds’ Drive Southern California Fires 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Read this excerpt from Joan Didion’s essay “Los Angeles Notebook.” Newsletter: Essential California Week in Review: Fires and power outages 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z She tells me that she recently listened to an audio version of Joan Didion’s 1970 novel Play It As It Lays while driving around – the tale of an anguishing woman traversing LA’s freeways alone. Kim Gordon: 'There's a wall of faceless men I have to climb over' 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z From the archives: Joan Didion’s seminal essay “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” was first published 52 years ago this week in the Saturday Evening Post. Newsletter: Billie Jean King's Long Beach roots 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z More to the point, mainstream journalists are like magpies, easily distracted by shiny objects and ever-eager to disobey Joan Didion’s famous dictum to “observe the observable.” Elegy for Bernie? Not quite yet: Sanders 2020 poses a conundrum Democrats must solve 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z In the same way that writer Joan Didion was able to intuit the darker corners of the hippie movement, this current expression of hippie-dippy flower power appears to have an edge to it. Fashion is having a seriously psychedelic moment 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z In her book about the death of her husband, “The Year of Magical Thinking,” Joan Didion writes that “people who have lost someone look naked because they think themselves invisible.” Opinion | What the Arab Spring Cost Me 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z The crimes did not single-handedly end the 1960s, no matter what Joan Didion says in “The White Album,” her seminal book of essays published in 1979. Charles Manson's murderous imprint on L.A. endures as other killers have come and gone 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z That fear of fragmentation will be familiar to readers of Joan Didion, who, in the title essay of “The White Album,” reports firsthand on the period, and the very place, that Tarantino now patrols. Quentin Tarantino Tweaks History in “Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood” 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z So many cultural depictions — Joan Didion’s essay “The White Album” being the number one example of this — see the Manson family as this inevitable end to the 1960s. The big twist at the end of 'Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood': What does it mean? 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z Joan Didion famously signposted the murders as the symbolic end of the 1960s, and they serve that purpose well. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is a bittersweet tribute to a bygone era 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z That great chronicler of the West, Joan Didion, famously said, “We tell stories in order to live,” but it’s also true that we tell stories in order to understand where we live. L.A. book events this week: Meet authors with deep roots to California's past and present 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z “The White Album,” Joan Didion’s 1979 collection of essays, describes the vague but ever-present sense of menace that she felt living in Hollywood in 1969. Making sense of the Manson Family Murders — a reading list 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z In the same way that writer Joan Didion was able to intuit the darker corners of the hippie movement, this current expression appears to have an edge to it. Fashion is having a seriously psychedelic moment 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z But to my delight Tracy Daugherty — essayist, novelist, and biographer of Joseph Heller and Joan Didion — has uncovered a small gem within the history of astronomy. Review | An astronomer’s poetic soul meets Dante’s scientific mind 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z In fact, what happened was that reporters and editors — most of them male, though certainly not all — failed to obey the profession’s prime directive, as articulated years ago by Joan Didion: “Observe the observable.” Gender, "electability" and journalism: How to cover the 2020 election without sexism 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z This year, Romero will work on an adaptation of Joan Didion’s of The Year of Magical Thinking in Seattle. Pittsburgh state of mind: how August Wilson's flame burns on 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z The writer Joan Didion said that we tell ourselves stories in order to live. The things they don’t tell you about death: a Mother’s Day story 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z "Blue Nights," Joan Didion: The legendary author's daughter, Quintana Roo Dunne, died of pancreatitis in 2005, just shy of her 40th birthday. 7 memoirs about moms to read this Mother's Day 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z There are interesting sections on Joan Didion and David Foster Wallace, and on what our cultural lives were like – more precious? Bret Easton Ellis: ‘My ability to trigger millennials is insane’ 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z Of course Joan Didion, and “The White Album,” which my title’s kind of an homage to that because the book’s not about race or anything. Bret Easton Ellis on the New Yorker controversy: ‘I got punked’ 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z Joan Didion’s 1979 essay “The White Album” is both a classic of new journalism and an artifact of the tumultuous period it chronicles. Review: ‘The White Album,’ Joan Didion and the seismic shifts of California in the ’60s 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z He is editing the collected works of Joan Didion for the Library of America. Lars Jan’s ‘White Album’ turns Joan Didion’s words into a multi-sensory performance 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Even the fashion industry is entering a “greynnaisance,” which, according to Business of Fashion, began when Joan Didion became the face of Celine at 80. From ‘Hello Dolly!’ to Glenn Close, more women than ever prove 70 is the new fabulous 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z And finally, whatever people tell you, do not start reading that Joan Didion book. Opinion | Tell Me One More Time What to Do About Grief 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z A heavily filtered photo at your local indie bookstore, lost among the towering stacks of Joan Didion and David Foster Wallace, signals to the world your sophisticated literary preferences. Independent bookstores are growing — and Instagram helped 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Though cleverly titled to recall the Beatles’ self-titled album and Joan Didion’s collection of essays by the same name, Jafa’s The White Album isn’t striving for purity or colorlessness. Arthur Jafa: 'I was giving people this microwave epiphany about blackness' 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Dunne and his wife, Joan Didion, knew James, and were in on the hoax. Literary Hoaxes and the Ethics of Authorship 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z The last book that made me laugh I find Joan Didion hilarious, even if the humour is a touch grey. Tara Westover: ‘I find Joan Didion hilarious’ 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z I came across those words in Joan Didion’s South and West book, which is essentially a notebook of hers on notes about the south and west of the United States. Malcolm Gladwell meets Ben Fountain: 'So much of politics is absurd and dumb' 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z She studied author Joan Didion, whose 2005 book, “The Year of Magical Thinking,” chronicles how she lost her husband and daughter in a short amount of time. Elizabeth Olsen plays grieving widow in new Facebook series 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z His insistence on relying on dialogue drawn from interviews has prompted harsh assessments from various critics, including the writer Joan Didion, who famously called him a “stenographer.” Review | Bob Woodward’s meticulous, frightening look inside the Trump White House 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z In an appreciation, guest columnist Gustavo Arellano writes that Gold’s columns “have the same defining importance about our time and place as Joan Didion’s dispatches, as ‘The Day of the Locust.’” Essential Arts & Culture: Theater takes on the financial, a buoyant 'Bolero' and more Kusama-mania 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z Author Joan Didion ripped the deal: “Some of the Chandlers built Los Angeles. The rest of them just sold it out.” Visionaries and scoundrels made the Los Angeles Times, which returns to local ownership after 18 years 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z “We tell ourselves stories in order to live,” Jennifer tells a class in documentary filmmaking, quoting Joan Didion and describing herself. Director Jennifer Fox has turned the pain and confusion of childhood sexual abuse into ‘The Tale’ 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z It was what everyone was trying to become – trying to become Tom, Norman Mailer, Michael Herr, to some extent Joan Didion. 'He loved to stir it up': five writers, editors and friends on Tom Wolfe's legacy 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z As an essayist, Wheeler has some clear influences: Joan Didion's bone-deep skepticism, David Foster Wallace's polymathic, omnivorous greed for information, Edward Abbey's grizzled affection for desert culture. Joshua Wheeler aims to put overlooked southern New Mexico on the map in 'Acid West' 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z That includes the 12 female cultural critics — including Pauline Kael, Susan Sontag and Joan Didion — whose work and lives she outlines in her book, subtitled "The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion." Books: Writing and gun violence, women in criticism, politics at the Festival of Books and more 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z Jamison begins the book believing in the healing power of self-knowledge, a variant of Joan Didion’s famous pronouncement that “we tell ourselves stories in order to live.” Review | Will getting sober deaden a writer’s inspiration? 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z "When I first read Joan Didion," Gerwig said, "I was getting to see the place I was from through the eyes of this brilliant writer." For Sacramento, 'Lady Bird' offers a vivid portrait of a city that revels in its 'modest pleasures' 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z Right now, I’m reading “The Girls,” by Emma Cline, which is about girls being involved in a cult, and “Blue Nights,” by Joan Didion, which is about her grief following her daughter’s death. How Roya Sullivan, Designer of Macy’s Holiday Windows, Spends Her Sundays 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z “The city burning is Los Angeles’s deepest image of itself,” Joan Didion once wrote. Opinion | Doom Season in Los Angeles 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Roberts envisioned a giant typewriter, Joan Didion quotes and pages of stories all over the walls. Janelle Monae explores surveillance in her 1st art exhibit 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Joan Didion once described the air before a gust as an “unnatural stillness.” How you can help fire victims in Southern California 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Gerwig attributes the connection that locals are making with the film to her own connection with another of the city's native daughters, writer Joan Didion. For Sacramento, 'Lady Bird' offers a vivid portrait of a city that revels in its 'modest pleasures' 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z I fly to Washington to organise a photoshoot with Ronald and Nancy before dropping in on Norman Mailer and Joan Didion for a quiet dinner with 90 of our closest friends. The Vanity Fair Diaries 1983-1992 by Tina Brown – digested read 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z So, yes, Joan Didion is great, but she is also disturbing, and not in a good way. Opinion | The Magic and Moral of Joan Didion 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Barresi says the compilations are mining a transitional phase of rock created during a time when the hippy optimism gave way to a post-trip hangover that Joan Didion captured in Slouching Towards Bethlehem. Brown Acid: the sound that rock forgot 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z Access is almost everything for a documentary filmmaker, and the entree Griffin Dunne had to his celebrated subject makes all the difference in "Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold." Familiarity breeds respect in the honest, moving 'Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold' 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z Griffin Dunne hadn’t always planned to make a film about his aunt, the celebrated essayist and novelist Joan Didion. Griffin Dunne chronicles the life and work of his aunt, Joan Didion 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Goodbye to all that: At 82 years young, famed writer Joan Didion is ready for her close-up. Essential California: A deadly earthquake rocks Mexico — and is a reminder for California 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z Syntax and sensibility: Nobody wed them quite like Joan Didion, the author of that essay, “On Self-Respect,” and many others. Opinion | The Magic and Moral of Joan Didion 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Joan Didion once attended an Ashbery reading simply because she wanted to determine what the poet was writing about. John Ashbery, regarded as one of the world's greatest poets, dies at age 90 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z She’s the woman who posts a perfect Instagram photo of the perfect vintage copy of Joan Didion’s “The White Album” with the perfect quote and a jumble of hashtags like #blessed and #inspiration. ‘Ingrid Goes West’ satirizes the perils of social media envy 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z She tools around in a vintage Mercedes, is perennially reading Joan Didion’s “The White Album” and spends her weekends at a Joshua Tree abode. Elizabeth Olsen does double duty in 'Wind River' and 'Ingrid Goes West' 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Dunne has lately given himself over to making a documentary about his aunt, Joan Didion. A Star of “I Love Dick” Goes to the Museum of Sex 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z Joan Didion also strikes me as unbelievably selfish, as did her husband. Opinion | The Magic and Moral of Joan Didion 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z The Barbizon Hotel for Women, on East 63rd Street, for example, received landmark status largely because of residents who went on to become household names, including Grace Kelly, Liza Minnelli and Joan Didion. Return of the S.R.O., With a Twist 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z What was it like getting to interview Joan Didion? Actress Emma Roberts launches new book club with some help from Joan Didion 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z They were very much a fixture among the Manhattan literati, friends with Joan Didion, Gay Talese, David Remnick and so forth. Steve Bannon is reading this book about the Vietnam war (but don’t let that put you off) | Hadley Freeman 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z Mailer, along with Hunter Thompson, Joan Didion and other “new” journalists, convincingly argued that celebrating subjectivity and personal narration, while introducing the tactics of fiction in reportage, leads to more honest journalism. Donald Trump: A bigger “factoid” president than Nixon? 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z Her plan was to do some reporting and maybe start a novel, according to “The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion” by Tracy Daugherty. Joan Didion’s ‘reporter’s notebook’ of a road trip: ‘South and West’ 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z March also sees the release of South and West, two extended excerpts of Joan Didion's notebooks. Books in 2017: A look ahead - BBC News 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z Unlike her contemporary, Joan Didion, Babitz isn’t staring into the abyss and reporting back; but she does want to tell you how good the light is out by the abyss. Eve Babitz: return of the LA woman 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z The photographs hold all kinds of resonances from the dark, surreal films of David Lynch to the anxious urban neighbourhoods evoked in the early essays of Joan Didion. Gregory Halpern’s ZZYZX – California dreamin’ in the 21st century 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z “And it will happen to you,” writes Joan Didion in The Year of Magical Thinking, chronicling the aftermath of the sudden death of her husband. Kathleen Turner: 'Americans really don't want to deal with death' 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Instilled with what Joan Didion described as the sense “that something extraordinary would happen any minute, any day, any month”, New York’s energy is self-conscious. 'New York problems': literature puts a city on the couch 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z After reading Joan Didion’s 1968 essay “In Bed,” about the writer’s struggle with migraines, Ms. Novak decided to tackle the representation of these debilitating headaches. Women’s Emotions Do Not Cause Their Migraines 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z The only female authors featured in the collection were Joan Didion and Barbara Goldsmith. Gay Talese in Twitter storm after failing to name inspirational female writers 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z Below the live stream is what the hosts referred to as the “Carousel below”, which sounds like a particularly dour Joan Didion novel about the loss of innocence in a small California town. Style Code Live: Amazon's new shopping show is the ultimate capitalist dream 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Joan Didion herself suggested that critics were uncomfortable with a powerful woman in the White House. Nancy Reagan's Surprising Feminist Gift to Hillary Clinton 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z Before Joan Didion said goodbye to New York, Robert Graves said goodbye to his native England. 10 Books to Counteract Your 'Downton Abbey' Withdrawal 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z She has been compared with Don DeLillo and Joan Didion, but her tone and mood are distinctly her own: She’s fascinated, not alienated. The Quietly Subversive Fictions of Dana Spiotta 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z In December 2003, as an acute, lifelong reporter of her inner states, Joan Didion was presented with a unique opportunity to examine the experience of bereavement. The 100 best nonfiction books: No 2 – The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (2005) 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z On My Own will invite comparisons to Joan Didion’s own memoir of loss, The Year of Magical Thinking. Diane Rehm, NPR host: 'Too many of us are afraid to speak about death' 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z “I tested this on Calder’s grandson, Sandy,” says Wagstaff, 59, a wiry woman who wears her hair in a headband and looks a bit like a younger Joan Didion. The Met Goes Modern: The Met Breuer Opens With ‘Unfinished’ Artworks 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z He paused while flipping through a biography of writer Joan Didion at a bookstore near campus. From west to east, Iowa voters have starkly different realities and fears 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z Joan Didion, a student of Hemingway and Fitzgerald and a steel-edged bricoleur of upper-middle-class fantasy, wrote obsessively of flights and hotels. Has the Internet Made Air Travel Irrelevant? 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends Joan Didion The result is a classic of mourning that’s also the apotheosis of baby-boomer reportage, a muted celebration of the enthralling self. The 100 best nonfiction books: No 2 – The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (2005) 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z As Joan Didion observed many cycles ago, it would be more accurate to say that politics is a subset of culture than the other way around. The empire strikes back: The media-political elite’s campaign to destroy Bernie (and Trump) and restore order 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z It is the phrase everyone knows Joan Didion by. The Radicalization of Joan Didion 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z That really is Joan Didion, buried deep in Photoshop,” says Waters. John Waters: 'I want to be despised' 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z I was living under the spell of what Joan Didion called “magical thinking”: the cool-minded craziness of those who expect their loved one back at any moment. I Became a Father in an Instant—Becoming a Dad Would Take Years 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z Finally, Joan Didion has joined that select band of writers, led by CS Lewis, who have transformed grief into literature. The 100 best nonfiction books: No 2 – The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (2005) 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z “It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends,” Dean writes, quoting Joan Didion. Ruing the end of America’s glory days in space 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z In The White Album, Joan Didion describes the scene starting to go bad and hints at how she wound up in a psychiatric hospital. Charles Manson's sordid legacy endures thanks to pop culture's odd fascination 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z The main cover image depicts one of America’s great writers as you’ve never seen her before: “Shocking new photos! Joan Didion hits 250lbs!” John Waters: 'I want to be despised' 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z Along with the lyrical essay, the memoir rides high in Reality Hunger: storytelling as self-examination, à la Montaigne or Joan Didion, true life instead of fake life. Does Fiction Need to Become Less ... Fictional? Joan Didion, the intellectual writer whose new Celine ad startled the fashion world this week, reminds New York Times writer Alexandra Jacobs that this isn't the first time she's lent her likeness to commerce. Justin Bieber, Karl Lagerfeld collaborate in V magazine 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Joan Didion is both relevant and eloquent, but not really original in how she writes. The Turbulent Genius of David Foster Wallace It is perhaps best known as the title of a 1967 Joan Didion essay about leaving Sacramento for New York, which promised literary ferment and sophistication, but less in the way of Golden State comforts. 'Goodbye to All That' Is Pure North Carolindie Filmmaking 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Joan Didion wrote that Hollywood “represents a kind of mechanical monster, programmed to stifle and destroy all that is interesting and worthwhile and ‘creative’ in the human spirit.” Searching for The Voice of a Generation Gay is as comfortable dissecting a Joan Didion novel as the reality TV show “Flavor of Love” with equal fluency and smarts. Review: ‘Bad Feminist’ essays are sharp, funny 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z One could say about Jamison, as she says here about Joan Didion, “Her intelligence excavates a truth at once uncomfortable and crystalline.” Review ‘The Empathy Exams,’ Leslie Jamison and ‘Will Not Attend,’ by Adam Resnick From Joan Didion: “A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.” The Unmothered 2014-05-10T04:00:00Z “Her ability to make rather advanced theories interesting and relatable makes this a must read for those who have a passion for science but would rather be reading Joan Didion.” New Book, “Me, Myself and Why,” Hits the Shelves 2014-01-30T05:02:47Z I read a book by Joan Didion about the years following her husband's death, when she went through a psychosis related to her grief. Waiting for the world to end 2013-10-25T07:38:23Z As Joan Didion wrote in a 1965 essay: "He determined forever the shape of certain of our dreams." The hunt for a long-lost John Wayne film 2013-10-10T01:20:54Z A long time ago in a different context, Joan Didion observed that the reporter’s job was to “observe the observable.” How do you explain drone killings? With post-Orwellian “Newspeak” 2013-02-09T17:00:00Z The essayist Joan Didion, who wrote of malls as they first opened in Southern California in the 1960s, said that they were “like pyramids to the boom years.” With a Mall Boom in Russia, Property Investors Go Shopping 2013-01-01T19:42:20Z He recently brought the gender-blending provocateur Justin Vivian Bond to the club for a successful run of Monday evening performances of songs inspired by Joan Didion’s novel “Play It as It Lays.” Cabaret, and a Convention, Enter New Era 2012-09-29T21:43:03Z So Articulate, Yet Crazed by Loss When I first read Joan Didion’s book “The Year of Magical Thinking,” in 2005, the observation I remembered best was about shoes. | Connecticut: A Review of ‘The Year of Magical Thinking,’ at the Westport Country Playhouse 2012-06-22T23:48:26Z In a later age, Joan Didion referred to this spirit as our national narrative — the framework of our values, identity, spirituality and hope. ‘Turning and turning in the widening gyre’ 2012-06-08T08:00:00Z As Joan Didion wrote in the introduction to “Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” her collection of articles, “writers are always selling somebody out.” The Lede Blog: Syrian Activists Say U.S. Journalist Is No Spy 2012-03-23T01:27:19Z “We tell ourselves stories in order to live,” goes the old Joan Didion quote. Amalur Vs. Skyrim: Does Gameplay Matter? 2012-02-08T20:12:16Z His was a far more literary undertaking, in the tradition of the greatest American writers of fact, people like Joan Didion and James Baldwin. The Illegal Among Us: A Journalist Outs Himself 2011-06-22T18:03:30Z |
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