The Most-Viewed Joan Didion Fan Site Online
In a blog post on the Times website, Timothy Egan wrote yesterday about those who find success relatively late in life. At one time, he coveted the ‘wunderkind’, the young genius who produces brilliant work early on in their career, like F. Scott Fitzgerald or Vincent van Gogh. But now, perhaps through necessity, he finds inspiration [...]
Vanessa Redgrave, the Academy Award-winning actress, recently gave an interview to BBC Radio 4 in which she spoke about the death of three members of her immediate family in the last year and a half. In March of last year, Redgrave’s daughter, the actress Natasha Richardson, died following a skiing accident. She was 45. Then, [...]
Norris Church Mailer, Norman Mailer’s wife of 33 years, has named “The Year of Magical Thinking” as one of her five favorite memoirs of all time. Her list was compiled for The Wall Street Journal‘s “Five Best” series, where she writes: In “The Year of Magical Thinking,” Joan Didion shows she is the stuff of which [...]
The Awl has published some hate mail from the archives. When Didion wrote for Life magazine in 1969/70, her articles drew letters which editors banished to the “Hilarious/Crazy/Scary” file. Now, thanks to a caprice of the Internet, that file has been opened.
Layla Morgan Wilde writes about meeting Joan Didion at a recent memorial for Amos Elon. “The last thing I wanted was to prattle on like a besotted fan or worse, a besotted fan who is an aspiring writer. I’ve met lots of famous people but I’m Canadian. We don’t drool over celebrities…” Click the above photo [...]
Burt Britton has auctioned off some of his vast collection of celebrity self-portraits, including those of writers Joan Didion and John Updike. The Daily Beast has the full story: Working at the famed Strand bookstore in New York for a decade, and later owning Books & Company on Madison Avenue, Britton befriended many of the [...]
On Thursday, September 10th, Dominick Dunne’s funeral took place at a Mass at St. Vincent Ferrer Church in Manhattan. Hundreds attended from the worlds of society and culture, including Richard Gere, Julianna Margulies, Liev Schreiber, and Diane von Furstenberg. Joan Didion was, of course, also in attendance. She spoke of Dunne ultimately as family-orientated and [...]
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Dominick Dunne, the ultimate self-made American man, died today following a long battle with bladder cancer. He was 83. Dunne rose to public consciousness in the movie business. He was a producer at the very end of the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema, though not a very prolific one. He was attracted to glamour; indeed, [...]
‘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 [...]
