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The iconic writer’s sunglasses and books are among the items up for auction soon.
The California native was a terrific reporter, essayist, and novelist. She was also a devoted mother and wrote about that with her trademark shrewdness, and with humility.
As proven in her latest collection, Didion is a peerless—and always self-aware—reporter, but she is also a seer, repeatedly foreseeing social trends years ahead of everyone else.
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Trapped in my apartment I pulled Joan’s books off the shelf. I wanted to learn again from her meticulous observation of detail, character and setting, and her great sense of irony.
Director Dee Rees’ Joan Didion adaptation “The Last Thing He Wanted” is indeed difficult and strange—but it’s also genuinely inspired and very Didion-esque.
The first biography of Joan Didion falls far short of a definitive portrait of one of America’s greatest living writers—which is just the way the enigmatic Didion would want it.
Naming writer Joan Didion the face of Celine and veteran singer Joni Mitchell for a similar role at Saint Laurent corrects the norm that most fashion ads exclude older people.
Joan Didion’s trailblazing nonfiction set a forbiddingly high standard, but a slew of idiosyncratic writers are proving that her example may be inimitable but it is also inspiring.
<p>The writer and <i>Studio 360</i> host creates a character haunted by her political actions in the late ’60s and early ’70s in his new novel, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1400067200/thedaibea-20/" target="_blank">True Believers</a></i>. He picks his favorite books from the era.</p>
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