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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 [...]
Joan Didion has cancelled the dates for her Blue Nights book tour in April due to injury. She broke her ‘patella’ or kneecap by banging her leg while dining at a restaurant, according to a report in The Los Angeles Times. Didion had been scheduled to partake in a conversation with Mona Simpson, the novelist and sister [...]
Joan Didion has been nominated for an Indies Choice award for Blue Nights. The grief memoir, which addressed the death of Didion’s daughter, Quintana Roo Dunne Michael, was published in November 2011. Others who were nominated in the non-fiction category include Robert K. Massie for his celebrated biography of Catherine the Great and Andre Dubus [...]
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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Griffin Dunne, the nephew of Joan Didion and himself an accomplished director, has made a short film of Didion reading aloud from her new memoir, Blue Nights. Dunne describes it as “an audiobook for the eyes.” Visual interest is added by an array of family photographs which are cut together to illustrate Didion’s lines as [...]
Christopher Hitchens briefly reviews Joan Didion’s upcoming memoir in the October issue of Vanity Fair. “Didion, here slightly syncopating in the Bob Dylan manner, has striven with intense dignity and courage in Blue Nights to deepen and extend the effect of The Year of Magical Thinking,” he notes. Hitchens reads this work as a testament to [...]
The crisp, distinctive voice of Vanessa Redgrave, star of stage and screen, will be heard on the audiobook recording of Blue Nights. Close followers of Joan Didion’s work will recall that Redgrave was the actress cast to play the role of Didion in The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play when it opened on Broadway in March, 2007. [...]
