The question haunting Joan Didion's 'Notes to John' is whether such a private person would have wanted her intimate, unedited ...

Didion's book is an intimate chronicle of the author's struggle to help her daughter, even if it meant digging into her own ...

By Alexandra Alter In the summer of 2000, Joan Didion was ... with Quintana.” Image “All my life I have turned away from people who were trouble to me,” Didion writes in “Notes to John.” ...

The opening of the Joan Didion and John ... Alongside these mementos Didion kept a stack of undated, printed pages she titled simply “NOTES.” Around 20 pages in all, the pages are numbered ...

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At some point in the last decade, Joan Didion’s famed elusiveness has evolved ... family's Los Angeles home at 7406 Franklin Avenue. For all that minimalist imagery and style, though, there ...

As Joan Didion said, "Sacramento is the least typical of the Valley towns," and this film is a testament to why.

In notes to her husband, John Gregory Dunne, the writer reflected on her sessions with the psychiatrist Roger MacKinnon.

A treasure trove in 336 boxes, the archive includes items dating as far back as the 1840s—when the ancestral Didions crossed the Oregon Trail—all the way to her death 2022. There is correspondence ...

Looking through old entries and seeing the quotes from the book I was reading, or something funny a friend said on our way to ...