Gabrielle Bellot on the radical and harrowing nature of being trans in Trump’s America. | Lit Hub Memoir Lili Anolik explores the tumultuous, iconic, and unmistakably literary friendship between Eve Babitz and Joan Didion. | Lit Hub Biography “I am glad not to be a Greenland shark; I don’t have... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-11-16 11:30:58 UTC ]
What if Jane Austen is actually the master of anti-romance? Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey on how Austen’s rushed endings undercut her reputation. | Lit Hub Criticism Living with a literary icon can teach some incredible lessons. Cory Leadbeater on his life-changing friendship with Joan Didion. |... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-06-12 10:30:38 UTC ]
As his own life unfolds, an artist reconsiders his reaction to Joan Didion’s memoir about loss. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-02-17 10:04:10 UTC ]
A play based on the writer’s memoir about the death of her husband, in its first New York revival, goes small to powerful effect. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-11-02 23:00:05 UTC ]
The #1 book in the country is 'The Brightest Night,' the graphic novel adaptation of the fifth entry in Tui T. Sutherland's Wings of Fire series. Plus 'The Year of Magical Thinking' and other works by Joan Didion, who died December 23, see renewed interest. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-01-07 05:00:00 UTC ]
The unsparing observer of US culture, politics and public life won huge acclaim for her memoir The Year of Magical Thinking• Read Alex Clark’s interview with Joan Didion from February 2021• Obituary: Joan DidionJoan Didion, the eminent journalist, author and anthropologist of contemporary... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-12-23 17:19:56 UTC ]
Her novels and essays explored the agitated, fractured state of the nation’s psyche. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-12-23 17:15:33 UTC ]
Joan Didion, one of the most widely respected journalists and writers of the latter half of 20th century, has died due to complications from Parkinson’s disease. She was 87. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-12-23 05:00:00 UTC ]
Didion’s writing has often revealed what was previously hidden, parsed what was unconscious. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-02-09 13:00:00 UTC ]
The Library of America’s “Joan Didion: The 1960s & 70s” highlights some of the author’s finest writing Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2019-11-07 15:00:00 UTC ]
In this episode of A Phone Call With Paul, Paul Holdengraber speaks with David Ulin, writer, and former book critic of the Los Angeles Times, about the dramatic changes in Los Angeles, the literature of the city, and his work on Joan Didion. From the episode: Paul Holdengraber: What are the most... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-07-10 08:47:10 UTC ]
Hot properties include titles from Ursula K. LeGuin, Masha Gessen, Tom Hanks, Joan Didion, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ebook rights to works of Joan Didion, Joyce Carol Oates, and Philip Pullman go to Open Road, while Germany's De Gruyter ups its ante in Open Access. The post International Notes: Open Road Acquires Iconic UK and US Titles; Germany’s De Gruyter Reorganizes Open Access appeared first on Publishing... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Recently, I bought a copy of a 1972 anthology called "Works in Progress" that includes what appears to be the only published screenwriting by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne. The sample in question features the first 44 pages of "Play It As It Lays," the 1972 film based on Didion's novel of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2015-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
In the forty years since she founded the Wallace Literary Agency, she has represented authors like William F. Buckley, Joan Didion, and Don DeLillo. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
PEN Center USA's 23rd annual literary awards festival went off without a hitch on Monday night -- except for the fact that its lifetime achievement award winner, Joan Didion, was not in attendance.PEN Center USA's 23rd annual literary awards festival went off without a hitch at the Beverly Hills... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]