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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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Watch a rare interview from the 1970′s with Tom Brokaw and Joan Didion. Didion discusses the power of writing and her love for California. Joan Didion talks with Today show host Katie Couric about the death of her husband and daughter, as recounted in her book The Year of Magical Thinking. (2005)
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 [...]
YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING – 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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
