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5 days ago · Play It as It Lays was author Joan Didion's second novel, after her debut Run, River was published in 1963. Didion gained public attention for her non-fiction collection Slouching Towards Bethlehem in 1968. Published on July 13, 1970, by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Didion
1 day ago · In an essay about Hemingway, Joan Didion complains that “the increasing inability of many readers to construe fiction as anything other than roman à clef, or the raw material of biography, is ...
1 day ago · Many of Uhart’s fans, like many of Joan Didion’s, prize her crónicas — her essays, articles and travel writing — more than her fiction.
2 days ago · In today's episode, he tells Here & Now's Emiko Tamagawa he remembers bowing goodnight to his parents' black-tie party guests, like his aunt Joan Didion and his father's friend, Billy Wilder.
3 days ago · All these years of note-taking, of being what Joan Didion calls ‘a lonely, anxious re-arranger of things. Oh my god. I even got the skier on the colour TV in the Italian cafe! In the margins I have written: THE SHOEHORNER! Perhaps this piece this morning is about guilt. Reader guilt, writer guilt.
5 days ago · My kid texted me the day Didion died: “I loved her but Twitter today is going to be unbearable.” So I came with some trepidation to The Uptown Local. Some reviewers have complained that the book – an account of Cory Leadbeater’s time working as Didion’s assistant – is a little too light on the Didion and a little too heavy on Leadbeater’s own experiences of joy and death.
4 days ago · Reading grief: Getting beyond Joan Didion Editor’s note: Grief literature has been a bit of a publishing fad ever since Didion wrote her bestselling ‘Year of Magical Thinking’. And grief lit lists end up with the usual suspects—all very worthy, but also very well-known.
