Joan Didion made her mark on L.A. Here are 10 places she knew and loved
Experience Joan Didion’s Los Angeles — her iconic homes, along with the hotels and restaurants she frequented, as two new ...
21 Nonfiction Books to Read This Spring
A posthumous collection of Joan Didion’s diaries, biographies of Yoko Ono and Mark Twain, a history of The Onion — and plenty ...
How the Movies Made Joan Didion a Great American Writer
A new book by Alissa Wilkinson argues that the iconic writer’s imagination and signature style were profoundly shaped by ...
Joan Didion was famously reserved. But she openly adored John Wayne and Old Hollywood
Joan Didion fell in love with movies as a girl but would sour on Hollywood after working there, Alissa Wilkinson writes in ...
What Hollywood meant to Joan Didion
We Tell Ourselves Stories,” by Alissa Wilkinson, looks at how Didion both shaped and was shaped by the movies.
In ‘We Tell Ourselves Stories,' Alissa Wilkinson Explores Joan Didion's Time in Hollywood: ‘It's a New Framework to Look at Her Work'
In 2020, film critic Alissa Wilkinson started working on a book project about Joan Didion. She wanted to explore the iconic ...
Revisiting Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne’s Hollywood Era
Wilkinson’s book got me curious enough about Didion and Dunne’s collaborations to visit or revisit all seven of their ...
Didion is a guide to understanding American culture and its dysfunction, but she’s not the only one
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Learn more about Joan Didion's lifelong relationship with movies at this Skylark book talk
Joan Didion knew it full well. The late literary legend's prose has served Wilkinson as a guide through the never-ending ...
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Joan Didion, Movie Audience Critic
Joan Didion’s time as a film critic comes up for discussion in Alissa Wilkinson’s new book on the essayist, We Tell Ourselves ...
Joan Didion and posthumous publishing: a new problem?
Posthumous publication – the publishing of creative work after the death of its creator – is not a new phenomenon. Samuel ...