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Jan 7, 2022 · Didion, who died Dec. 23, was known her cool, unsentimental observations. Her books include Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The Year of Magical Thinking. Originally broadcast in 1987 and 2005.
Dec 23, 2021 · Joan Didion Was Our Bard of Disenchantment. The prolific writer, who died today at 87, was a penetrating anthropologist of American myths. In 1988, Joan Didion joined a scrum of reporters on the ...
Dec 23, 2021 · Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne in 1972. Frank Edwards/Archive Photos/Getty Images Within two years of Didion’s husband’s death, her daughter died at 39 after years of illnesses and injuries.
Apr 28, 2024 · The Joan Didion many people know is constructed from a few artifacts the real writer left behind when she died in 2021.There’s her much-imitated (and sometimes parodied) 1967 essay “Goodbye to ...
Dec 23, 2021 · What Joan Didion Saw. Her writing and thinking captured momentous change in American life—and in her own. When Joan Didion died, on Thursday, at eighty-seven, she left behind sixteen books ...
Dec 23, 2021 · Forty-two years ago, Joan Didion — who died today at 87 — delivered one such delectable specimen. “Letter From ‘Manhattan’” was the restrained headline that appeared above her 1979 New York Review of Books essay on Woody Allen’s late-’70s oeuvre. And, if only in a certain sense, the essay that followed was restrained as well.
Dec 23, 2021 · Joan Didion, a literary icon who chronicled 60s and 70s US culture, with screenwriting credits including 1976 film A Star Is Born, has died aged 87. The incisive US novelist and essayist examined ...
