Didion

On Tuesday night, a procession of writers, editors and publishing-industry veterans stepped past the lions outside the New York Public Library’s main branch on Fifth Avenue as they made…

I will confess that early last week, in an act of deadline avoidance disguised as research, I spent hours lurking at the auction of Joan Didion’s estate organized by Stair Galleries in New…

Joan Didion in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, in 1967 © Corbis/Getty ImagesA catalogue listing property from the collection of Joan Didion, which will go to auction on November 16, has…

With the sun as bright as a typical day in Los Angeles, thousands of people gathered in New York on Wednesday to pay tribute to Joan Didion, the iconic author who died at 87 in December. The…

Can a single object contain within it the narratives of a family and an entire nation? If so, for Joan Didion that item may have been a potato masher. The masher in question — a humble…

Joan Didion was a working writer. What I mean is that, as much as writing was for her about art and nuance, it was also very much a job. This came up when I interviewed her for The Times in…

Joan Didion, a razor-sharp observer of American life whose essays eschewed its sentimentality and reshaped its journalism, has died, aged 87.During a writing career that spanned more…

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live,” Joan Didion famously wrote to open “The White Album,” her kaleidoscopic essay on Los Angeles in the late 1960s and early ’70s that effortlessly…

The messages started coming in at noon, Eastern time. “Joan Didion died.” “Joan.” Heartbreak emojis. Instagram posts featuring the glamorous black-and-white portraits I can see with my eyes…

I had known Joan Didion casually for many years when I asked her to join other artistic icons, including Frank Gehry, David Hockney and Clint Eastwood, in chatting with me for my book,…