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When she fractured her patella in March, Joan Didion was forced to cancel her April book tour dates. However, she has now scheduled several appearances in the month of June. She will visit Fairfield University in Connecticut on the 7th, the Music Hall in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on the 19th and the Hartford Stage in Connecticut on [...]
Vintage Books has provided Joan-Didion.info with the particulars of Joan Didion’s upcoming book tour promoting Blue Nights. In turn, we have added the information to our Readings and Events page. The full details of some events are not yet available, so we recommend that readers bookmark the page and check back for the latest updates. Didion will appear at [...]
Joan Didion has fallen and broken her collarbone, according to a report in the Star Tribune. As a result of this development, Didion’s planned appearance at the University of Minnesota campus on April 13 has been cancelled. She was scheduled to give the 10th Anniversary Esther Freier Endowed Lecture at the Ted Mann Hall. A [...]
On February 12, Joan Didion will present the first Quintana Roo Dunne Award for Visual Achievement at the Columbia Spectator‘s Annual Awards Dinner at the Columbia University Club in New York. The award is named for Didion’s daughter who died in 2005. Quintana Roo Dunne graduated from Columbia’s Barnard College in 1989, having served as the [...]
YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING – Debut October 10, 2009, Saturday at 21:30 at Teatro Bibi Ferreira. Season: Fridays and Saturdays at 21:30 and Sundays at 19 hours, until 1 November 2009. Author: Joan Didion. Direction: Caio de Andrade. Cast: Imara Reis. Translation: Erica de Almeida Rego Migon and Ursula de Almeida Rego Migon. Set and [...]
‘The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play’ (TYoMT: P), a self-adapted staging of Joan Didion’s non-fiction book of the same name, was first performed by Vanessa Redgrave on Broadway in the summer of 2007. Though Didion did the writing; the director, David Hare, and Redgrave herself were intimately part of the production process. Recently, we [...]
The following is a write-up of the Dominick Dunne event, which took place this past Monday evening: _____ Monday evening, Didion’s brother-in-law, producer, writer, and victim’s rights activist. Dominick Dunne was joined by Jason Tyrrell of IndiePix Films and co-director Kirsty de Garis at the Borders Bookstore in Columbus Circle to discuss the newly-released documentary, [...]
Didion’s brother-in-law, Dominick Dunne is the subject of a biographical film, in which Didion is featured. The film is entitled, “Dominick Dunne: After the Party.” In the film, Vanity Fair’s more notorious celebrity journalist considers his life from childhood and heroism in World War II to his rise and ultimate fall in Hollywood, as well [...]
The reports are in on Joan Didion’s reading in Cleveland: Writer Joan Didion, whose spare, piercing sensibility has colored American culture for 40 years, talked about her craft Tuesday evening at the Ohio Theatre in Cleveland. At age 74, Didion’s fierceness in print contrasts with her fragility in person; she stumbled as she stepped up [...]
