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The Unglamourous Beginnings of Joan Didion’s Hollywood Life
JOAN DIDION and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, came to L.A. from New York in the summer of 1964. Both had worked as journalists. (She for Vogue; he for Time.) Both wanted to write books.
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Joan Didion and Eve Babitz: The uneasy bond between two very different literary ‘it girls’
Joan Didion leans against her Corvette Stingray ... The former’s more straightforward ascent is much better known. Didion won a Vogue essay contest as a young woman, then got a job composing ...
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Didion mania
Three years after her death, I find myself having grown tired of Joan Didion.I am tired of the books about her and the book-length compendiums of her books. I am tired of her likeness in ...
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Highlighting their unique styles and influences, the book lays bare their starkly contrasting personas and yet similarly enduring impact
Even without all the prepublication buzz, Lili Anolik’s new book, Didion & Babitz, was always going to have immediate resonance. How could it not, when Joan Didion has long been the ultimate for ...