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		<title>Swell Phrase-Turner Is Not Your Average Housewife</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;Hilarious/Crazy/Scary&#8221; file. Now, thanks to a caprice of the Internet, that file has been opened.
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		<title>Happy Birthday Joan!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Layla Morgan Wilde writes about meeting Joan Didion at a recent memorial for Amos Elon. &#8220;The last thing I wanted was to prattle on like a besotted fan or worse, a besotted fan who is an aspiring writer. I&#8217;ve met lots of famous people but I&#8217;m Canadian. We don&#8217;t drool over celebrities&#8230;&#8221; Click the above photo [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joan-didion.info/2009/12/happy-birthday-joan/</link>
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		<title>Vanessa Redgrave benefit revives &#8216;Magical Thinking&#8217; role</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Redgrave performs Monday at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, it will be the first time she has played the role since the death of her own daughter, actress Natasha Richardson, in March.]]></description>
		<link>http://joan-didion.info/2009/10/vanessa-redgrave-benefit-revives-magical-thinking-role/</link>
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		<title>Brazil&#8217;s Magical Thinking Debut</title>
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YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING &#8211; 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 costume [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrity Self-Portraits Are Auctioned Off</title>
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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 &#38; Company on Madison Avenue, Britton befriended many of the writers and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Didion &amp; Famous Friends Attend Dunne&#8217;s Funeral</title>
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On Thursday, September 10th, Dominick Dunne&#8217;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 brave, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing Sources</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A resource to advance the study of Joan Didion's work with exclusive FREE online content! Read essays by Joyce Carol Oates, Thomas Mallon, Michiko Kakutani and many more right now.]]></description>
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		<title>Dominick Dunne, Celebrity Journalist &amp; Crime Writer, Is Dead at 83.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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, when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joan-didion.info/2009/08/dominick-dunne-celebrity-journalist-crime-writer-is-dead-at-83/</link>
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		<title>Revisiting &#8216;The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play&#8217;.</title>
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&#8216;The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play&#8217; (TYoMT: P), a self-adapted staging of Joan Didion&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joan-didion.info/2009/08/revisiting-the-year-of-magical-thinking-the-play/</link>
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		<title>When is &#8220;Slouching&#8221; Just &#8217;slouching&#8217;? When You&#8217;re Lazy.</title>
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With customary cattiness, the media blog Gawker.com has zeroed in on Jill Abramson&#8217;s piece about her dog, &#8220;Chewing Towards Bethlehem&#8220;, in today&#8217;s NYT. The article forms part of Abramson&#8217;s &#8220;Puppy Diaries&#8221; column, in which she chronicles &#8220;the challenges and satisfactions of raising a puppy&#8221;. The title derives, of course, from that of Didion&#8217;s famous essay [...]]]></description>
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