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’s essay “Goodbye to All That” tells an autobiographical story that has resonated with generations of readers since its publication in 1967. In it, she traces her journey of ...

A t some point in the last decade, Joan Didion’s famed elusiveness has evolved into a sort of dare. She has been the subject ...

Bill Buckley called Joan Didion ... of Joan Didion. He “gets” Didion — the melancholy, the hypochondria, the depressions accompanied by daytime drinking. Most of all he is able to show ...

Few writers of her generation have had the impact on American culture that Joan Didion has ... easily, that Didion had been trafficking in some kind of nostalgia all her life.

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.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Of how to use it, or why it matters. There's the Joan Didion-ness of it all. With her spare prose and that photo in front of the Corvette, her much-Instagrammed packing list (mohair throw ...