Why Joan Didion’s fiction matters more than you (or I) ever knew
I came late, let me admit it, to the novels of Joan Didion. For too long, I considered them if not an afterthought then an ancillary line of work. Such a perception is hardly…
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Writer Joan Didion’s possessions sell for eye-popping prices at auction
The auction featured a number of items from the office…
Sunglasses for $27,000? A desk for $60,000? Joan Didion’s estate sale made big…
“We all know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a time when we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead.”Joan Didion wrote that in “A Year of Magical Thinking,” her…
Appreciation: Joan Didion’s indelible study of grief gave me the tools to save myself
Sixteen Christmases ago, my parents gifted me a copy of “The Year of Magical Thinking” by Joan Didion. It was a new book, published that fall, with an eggshell cover and a slim turquoise…
‘Often imitated but rarely matched’: Writers reflect on Joan…
When Matthew Specktor decided to start writing in earnest as a college sophomore, Joan Didion was on his mind.Specktor, who grew up a few blocks from Didion’s Santa Monica home in the early…