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Joan Didion’s publisher Knopf released a new edition of Blue Nights earlier this month. It’s an ebook which has been supplemented with video content made by Didion’s nephew, the actor and director Griffin Dunne. He filmed the writer reading chapters 1, 2 and 7 aloud. In October 2011, we posted the videos here on Joan-Didion.info. According to the [...]

On Monday, November 21, Joan Didion participated in a public talk with the writer Sloane Crosley at the New York Public Library. A video of the event has been released, and is embedded here.

On Wednesday, November 16, Joan Didion engaged in a conversation with David L. Ulin, a book critic at the Los Angeles Times. In addition to Blue Nights, the pair discussed some of Didion’s other non-fiction work. Didion also answered questions from the audience. The Los Angeles Library Foundation has released a video of the event, [...]
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