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Joan Didion's Blue Nights — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:35:19 +0000

[...] Knopf Publishers has provided the following: Blue Nights opens on July 26, 2010, as Didion thinks back to Quintana’s wedding in New York seven years before. Today would be her wedding anniversary. This fact triggers vivid snapshots of Quintana’s childhood—in Malibu, in Brentwood, at school in Holmby Hills. Reflecting on her daughter but also on her role as a parent, Didion asks the candid questions any parent might about how she feels she failed either because cues were missed or perhaps displaced. Seamlessly woven in are incidents Didion sees as underscoring her own age, something she finds hard to acknowledge, much less accept. [...]

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Sun, 02 Oct 2011 19:00:35 +0000

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Comment on Vanessa Redgrave to Narrate “Blue Nights” Audiobook by Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem — Enthusiasticast Episode 71 | Enthusiasticast.com

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:54:16 +0000

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Comment on Actress Natasha Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave's Daughter, Is Dead At 45 by Vanessa Redgrave to Narrate Audiobook Edition of Joan Didion Memoir - GalleyCat

Vanessa Redgrave to Narrate Audiobook Edition of Joan Didion Memoir - GalleyCat — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:04:03 +0000

[...] to give rise to a close friendship between the two women. Didion was reported at the time to have visited Richardson in hospital in New York shortly before she [...]

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Vanessa Redgrave to Narrate Audiobook Edition of Joan Didion Memoir - GalleyCat — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:02:26 +0000

[...] more from the Joan Didion Info blog: “in 2009, Vanessa Redgrave’s daughter, the actress Natasha Richardson died in a skiing [...]

Comment on How To Judge A Didion Book By Its Cover by First Review of Blue Nights Appears

First Review of Blue Nights Appears — Tue, 03 May 2011 19:16:51 +0000

[...] an interview with The New York Times in 2005, Didion noted her satisfaction with that book cover, designed by Carol Devine Carson, the Art Director at Knopf. It is not clear whether Carson also [...]

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The Wild West – Yosemite | a curious half hour — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 03:35:17 +0000

[...] ranges from where the water flows to irrigate California. I know about this because I’ve read Joan Didion’s ‘Holy Water’ essay in the White Album and I read all about the journey of water from [...]

Comment on New Didion Memoir About Aging Coming Next Year by Blue Nights to Be Released on November 1, 2011

Blue Nights to Be Released on November 1, 2011 — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 10:16:43 +0000

[...] Nights, Joan Didion’s new memoir about aging, will be released by Knopf on November 1, 2011. It will be 208 pages in [...]

Comment on New Didion Memoir About Aging Coming Next Year by Blue Nights to Be Released on November 1, 2011

Blue Nights to Be Released on November 1, 2011 — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 10:06:33 +0000

[...] Nights, Joan Didion’s new memoir about aging, will be released by Knopf on November 1, [...]

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Tweets that mention Joan Didion Falls, Breaking Collarbone -- Topsy.com — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:33:06 +0000

[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Sarah Weinman, Kathleen Schmidt, Robin Lenz, Rachel Syme, Anne Cater and others. Anne Cater said: Oh goodness – get well soon .. Joan Didion Falls, Breaking Collarbone http://joan-didion.info/?p=1580 [...]