Media Life Magazine brings news that Mark Leibovich has been nominated for a National Magazine Award for his profile of Chris Matthews which appeared in The New York TImes Magazine. Here is an extract, (look out for the Didion reference!): “If Matthews has an overriding professional insecurity, it is being confined to the pigeonhole of [...]
Joyce Carol Oates On Her Not So Didionesque Widowhood
Written by on April 11, 2009
In an interview today in The New York Times, Joyce Carol Oates talks about her reluctance to hire an assistant: I’m too shy to hire anyone. I couldn’t even bear the thought of it. I remember Margaret Drabble saying that it was really hard for her to hire a cleaning woman because it seemed like [...]
Joan Didion Reads At Tulane
Written by on April 7, 2009
Joan Didion read from “The Year of Magical Thinking” last night at Tulane University. One attendee wrote on her Twitter: “Didion wears black tights and camel colored Uggs. Her voice is dry w/o emotion…” To go to the Tulane Creative Writing blog, click here. This is an excerpt from The Times – Picayune blog about [...]
JoanDidion.info Now On Twitter!
Written by on April 3, 2009
We are now on Twitter; An even more convenient way to keep up-to-date with Joan Didion news. Join us: http://twitter.com/joandidioninfo
"I Had To Justify The Emerald": Joan Didion Attends Kelly Writers House
Written by on March 31, 2009
Joan Didion attended the Kelly Writers House at UPenn on March 30th/31st 2009. *** Click here to read an article about this in the Daily Pennsylvanian. *** INTERVIEW LISTEN to an audio recording of the interview: here Click here to stream the Quicktime video of an interview with Joan Didion, conducted by Al Filreis. READING LISTEN to an [...]
Chip McGrath Profiling New York Review of Books Editor Robert Silvers For The Times
Written by on March 28, 2009
From The Observer, click here. New York Times writer-at-large Charles “Chip” McGrath, the 65-year-old former editor of the paper’s Sunday book review, is working on a profile of New York Review of Books editor Robert Silvers. The piece will appear in The Times’ Arts section just as soon as Mr. McGrath finishes it, which he [...]
New Dates Announced for Vanessa Redgrave's Performance of "The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play"; Joan Didion and David Hare Will Attend.
Written by on March 27, 2009
The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York has announced new dates for a special charity performance of “The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play” starring Vanessa Redgrave. The date had been set for April, but was delayed due to the unexpected death of Natasha Richardson, Redgrave’s daughter. It will now [...]
Joan Didion Spotted in L.A.
Written by on March 25, 2009
Source: LAobserved.com Boutiques and other small shops are closing like mad on Montana Avenue and on West 3rd Street, Melrose Avenue and Robertson Boulevard, the L.A. Business Journal observes in a front-page (free) story in this week’s issue. On Montana, “about 30 shops have ‘sale’ signs in their windows…[and] an additional 31 boutiques have closed or [...]
Vanessa Redgrave Says Show Must Go On, Just Not Yet
Written by on March 23, 2009
Vanessa Redgrave will go ahead with a special performance of The Year of Magical Thinking – a one-woman stage show based on Joan Didion’s wrenching account of losing her husband and daughter — despite daughter Natasha Richardson’s recent death, the New York Post reports (incorrectly). The performance at New York’s Cathedral at St. John the Divine is scheduled for [...]
Reviews of Joan Didion's Books in The New York Times
Written by on March 23, 2009
The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) “[An] exact, candid and penetrating account of personal terror and bereavement. . . . Her manner is deadpan funny, slicing away banality with an air that is ruthless yet meticulous.” Where I Was From (2003) “[T]his new book of Didion’s is full of second thoughts: about the Sacramento Valley [...]