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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.
Lili Anolik explores the lives of Joan Didion and Eve Babitz—their legacies, their struggles, and their complex friendship. Two Literary Gamechangers in 1970s Hollywood Skip to main content
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 ...
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 .
With the publication of The White Album, Didion had established herself as a prominent writer on Californian culture. As critic Michiko Kakutani stated, "California belongs to Joan Didion." [1] The title of the book comes from its first essay, "The White Album", which was chosen as one of the 10 most important essays since 1950 by Publishers ...
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 ...
THE READING LIST: A new book explores the friendship and rivalry between two very different chroniclers of Sixties and Seventies Los Angeles – and shines a light upon why a new generation of ...
The Doors started recording Waiting for the Sun in late 1967 at Sunset Sound Studios, [a] with early versions of "The Unknown Soldier" and "Spanish Caravan". The group soon moved at TTG Studios in Hollywood, California, where the majority of the album's recording took place; the same time Frank Zappa was recording. [7]