Opening Night: Didion Attends Redgrave’s Latest Production

Written by Cillian Murphy on October 29, 2010
Didion_@_Miss_Daisy

Joan Didion attended the opening night of Driving Miss Daisy on Broadway at John Golden Theatre on October 24, 2010 in New York City. Vanessa Redgrave, known to Didion fans for her role in the theatrical version of The Year of Magical Thinking, plays the title character, Miss Daisy Werthan. She is a Southern Jewish septuagenarian [...]

Precocity Be Damned

Written by Cillian Murphy on July 1, 2010
From left: Susan Sontag, Barbara Epstein, Elizabeth Hardwick and Joan Didion, New York, New York, 1999

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 [...]