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Learn more about Joan Didion's lifelong relationship with movies at this Skylark book talk
Joan Didion knew it full well ... Contemplating a move away from New York, she read Didion's "Goodbye to All That," which touches similar ground; Wilkinson decided on staying, but counts herself ...
Joan Didion and John Dunne's NYPL Archives are a Treasure Trove
The expansive archive is now open to any New Yorker with a library card.
For Joan Didion, Mementos of Her Daughter’s Childhood Became Material
The opening of the Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne archives in the New York Public Library reveals unseen aspects of their ...
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Joan Didion made her mark on L.A. Here are 10 places she knew and loved
Joan Didion haunts Los ... and the winds and she writes about all that stuff, but for her California is an idea that governed her life,” Wilkinson says of Didion. “And it is the idea that ...
What Hollywood meant to Joan Didion
In her 1964 essay “I Can’t Get That Monster Out of My Mind,” Joan ... Didion came of age just in time to see her favorite actor, John Wayne, make the leap from B-movie bit-player to all ...
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In ‘We Tell Ourselves Stories,’ Alissa Wilkinson Explores Joan Didion’s Time in Hollywood: ‘It’s a New Framework to Look at Her Work’
In 2020, film critic Alissa Wilkinson started working on a book project about Joan Didion ... in delving into Didion’s “persona or her celebrity, as much as what ties all her work together.” ...
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Joan Didion's Los Angeles: The People and Places That Shaped Her Local Life
Harden Gatehouse: When Joan Didion and John ... a “writing factory,” where they all went to work on manuscripts, then gossip. 7406 Franklin Avenue: The Didion-Dunnes lived in this run-down ...