In ‘We Tell Ourselves Stories,’ Alissa Wilkinson Explores Joan Didion’s Time in Hollywood: ‘It’s a New Framework to Look at Her Work’
In 2020, film critic Alissa Wilkinson started working on a book project about Joan Didion. She wanted to explore the iconic essayist, reporter, novelist and playwright through an angle that hadn’t ...
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In ‘We Tell Ourselves Stories,’ Alissa Wilkinson Explores Joan Didion’s Time in Hollywood: ‘It’s a New Framework to Look at Her Work’
We are hopelessly sentimental, even Joan Didion. We are hopelessly tied to ... and can see that she is more than just the picture on the tote bag, or the image that we have in our minds.
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Joan Didion was famously reserved. But she openly adored John Wayne and Old Hollywood
Joan Didion, pictured during her L.A. days, was an unabashed fan of Old Hollywood, author Alissa Wilkinson writes in her new book about the famously reserved essayist and author. (Henry Clarke ...
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Joan Didion was famously reserved. But she openly adored John Wayne and Old Hollywood
If Joan Didion had an overarching preoccupation as a journalist and novelist, it was to find interstices where truth and myth blend into each other. In many of the essays that were collected in ...
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Joan Didion made her mark on L.A. Here are 10 places she knew and loved
Joan Didion haunts Los Angeles. In January, as catastrophic fires ripped through the Pacific Palisades and Altadena, Didion’s name became an echo on social media timelines as Angelenos shared ...
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Revisiting Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne’s Hollywood Era
In her new book, We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine (out March 11 from Liveright), film critic Alissa Wilkinson floats an idea: To truly understand Didion ...
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What Hollywood meant to Joan Didion
In her 1964 essay “I Can’t Get That Monster Out of My Mind,” Joan Didion wrote, “The American motion-picture industry still represents a kind of mechanical monster, programmed to stifle ...
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Didion is a guide to understanding American culture and its dysfunction, but she’s not the only one
In her 1976 essay, “Why I Write,” Joan Didion described herself as the kind of writer “whose most absorbed and passionate hours are spent arranging words on pieces of paper.” Had she been ...
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OPINION: Let Joan Didion rest in peace: The problem with posthumous publications
A few weeks ago, it was announced that the late bestselling author Joan Didion's diary will be published posthumously on April 22. Her latest publication since her death in December 2021, “Notes to ...