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A glimpse into the newly opened archive of Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne
About a year after Joan Didion's death in 2021, the New York Public Library (NYPL) began the process to become the stewards ...
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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This intimate memoir of grief is a lifeline to others dealing with loss
So, while a book such as Joan Didion’s “The Year of Magical Thinking ... all this in her intensely intimate and candid “Memorial Days: A Memoir,” about the death of her husband, celebrated ...
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New book explores Joan Didion's impact on American literature: "We Tell Ourselves Stories"
The book and title pay tribute to acclaimed writer and Sacramento native Joan Didion. "Often, she's really good at seeing how media and political and social culture have come together in American ...
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Joan Didion and posthumous publishing: a new problem?
When the writer Joan Didion died in December 2021, she left behind a literary legacy of five novels and 13 pieces of non-fiction, as well as screenplays including the original "A Star is Born".
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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 Gregory Dunne first moved to Los Angeles, they rented the gatehouse to an uncompleted extension of the Vanderlip estate on a Palos Verdes cliff ...
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Joan Didion: Separating the Myth from the Message
‘This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend,” a cynical editor remarks toward the end of “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,” co-starring one of multitalented ...