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Didion's nephew, Griffin Dunne, wanted to write a play about her life. She weighed about 75 pounds at this time, and he helped her become healthy again in preparing for the play. Didion wrote Blue Nights about Quintana, as a way to confront her death. Didion realized she had focused on Quintana's amusing side while not fully seeing her troubled ...
Joan Didion (/ ˈ d ɪ d i ən /; December 5, 1934 – December 23, 2021) was an American writer and journalist. She is considered one of the pioneers of New Journalism , along with Gay Talese , Truman Capote , Norman Mailer , Hunter S. Thompson , and Tom Wolfe .
Joan Didion, an unmatchable talent, who was fearless in her writing and inquisitive with her insights, died Thursday at the age of 87. As the author of 19 titles and even more screenplays, Didion ...
The release of Let Me Tell You What I Mean was highly anticipated, [2] [3] [4] coming amid a resurgence of interest in Didion's work following the publication of her two best-selling memoirs, The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) and Blue Nights (2011), and the release of the Netflix documentary Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold (2017).
Yes, Morrison's pants were leather. Yes, Densmore slept with Eve — and other questions answered as the Doors drummer remembers L.A.'s two writer-icons.
'Play It As It Lays' ranks No. 1 on our list of the best Hollywood books of all time because it speaks to today's Tinseltown as much as it did Didion's.
Anthony opens a door and sees his brother standing there naked and boxing the clown. He stares at Anthony with an annoyed look and tells him to shut the door and continues his sparring session. Anthony is now extremely angry and yells at his brother to get back inside before the cops come and he gets arrested.
Joan Didion was a working writer, notes David Ulin, editor of her Library of America editions. She achieved greatness by struggling from job to job. Appreciation: Like the rest of us, Joan Didion ...