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Joan Didion

  1. books
    Literary AssassinRevealing the secret histories of Joan Didion, Donna Tartt, and Eve Babitz.
    By Lili Anolik
  2. remembrance
    Noel Parmentel Jr., the Man Joan Didion Left BehindWhen she said good-bye to all that.
    By Linda Hall
  3. stop the presses
    Griffin Dunne’s Hollywood-Irish Family Had Its Grudges“We were clinically crazy,” says the son of Dominick Dunne and the nephew of John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion. “Like, really crazy.”
    By Shawn McCreesh
  4. slouching towards retirement
    Jessica Lange Is Putting on Her Magical Thinking CapThe Year of Magical Thinking is keeping her out of retirement.
    By Jason P. Frank
  5. the white album
    Celebrity Sightings In London - August 15, 2023
    Olivia Rodrigo Is Inspired by The White AlbumGuess which one.
    By Jason P. Frank
  6. vulture lists
    Greta Gerwig’s 10 Favorite BooksGeorge Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Joan Didion, and more.
    By Greta Gerwig
  7. magical thinking
    Excess and Earnestness at Joan Didion’s Estate SaleThings began going off the rails when the first painting went for $110,000.
    By Erin Somers
  8. theater
    Joan Didion in Your Living Room, Telling StoriesThe Year of Magical Thinking gets comfy.
    By Brock Colyar
  9. magical thinking
    The Media Remembers Joan DidionHer New York memorial service focused on her body of work with the more personal bits out of frame.
    By Erin Schwartz
  10. acting
    What Makes a Great, or Terrible, Audiobook Performance?The case for doing less.
    By Mimi Kramer
  11. obits
    Joan Didion and the Courage to Say What You MeanThe lesson to take from her is one of wild conviction.
    By Kerry Howley
  12. rip
    Writer Joan Didion Has Died at the Age of 87The nonfiction giant redefined the essay.
    By Rebecca Alter
  13. interview
    Lili Anolik Dishes on Her Gossipy Bennington College PodcastThe podcast host discusses the literary ’80s, Donna Tartt’s legal threats, and Bret Easton Ellis’s reliability.
    By Nicholas Quah
  14. Michelle Dean’s Sharp Tells the Origin Stories of 10 Essential Female CriticsAcross these portraits it’s possible to trace currents in American literary history as it unfolded between World War I and now.
    By Christian Lorentzen
  15. dream kitchens
    Harrison Ford Once Worked As a Carpenter for Joan DidionJust Harrison Ford building a deck for Joan Didion on the shores of Southern California.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  16. Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold Is a Chronicle of an Era-Defining VoiceThe emotional late-career tribute arrives on Netflix October 27.
    By Emily Yoshida
  17. books
    When Joan Didion Visited the South in 1970Failure is part of the origin myth of New Journalism.
    By Christian Lorentzen
  18. Toward a Unified Theory of Joan DidionThere’s nothing to be ashamed of in loving Joan Didion, whether you’re a 20-something woman who’d wear Céline if she could afford it or a Gen X man in corduroys.
    By Christian Lorentzen
  19. vulture lists
    The 13 Best Parts of the New Joan Didion Biography, The Last Love SongNever go to a party with Warren Beatty, among other things.
    By Genevieve Smith
  20. books
    The Joan Didion Documentary Kickstarter Raised $80K in One Day [Updated]We give money to Kickstarters in order to live.
    By Boris Kachka
  21. casting couch
    Allison Janney Joins Joan Didion AdaptationShe will star opposite Christina Hendricks in A Book of Common Prayer.
    By Delia Paunescu
  22. casting couch
    Christina Hendricks Cast in A Book of Common Prayer MovieJoan + Joan Didion.
    By Margaret Lyons
  23. movies
    Joan Didion and Todd Field Are Co-writing a ScreenplayThey’re partnering up for a political thriller.
    By Sarah Bennett
  24. Joan Didion’s 1979 Woody Allen TakedownHere’s a 1979 essay by Joan Didion from the New York Review of Books in which she takes aim at Woody Allen’s then-recent “serious” movies: […]
    By Adam Frucci
  25. books
    Joan Didion’s Next Book Will Be a Memoir on Aging’Blue Nights’ will be out in 2011.
    By Willa Paskin
  26. awesome
    Laura Linney and Joan Didion Team Up for HBO MovieHBO finally does something exciting!
    By Lori Fradkin
  27. kudos
    Denis Johnson Wins the National Book Award That Everyone Expected Him ToThe National Book Awards were last night at the Marriot Marquis, as pretty much everyone predicted, Denis Johnson took home the prize for fiction for his Vietnam War novel Tree of Smoke.
  28. the industry
    The Police Kick Off Tour; Tickets to This Post Sold Out in Fourteen Minutes