Revisiting Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne’s Hollywood Era
Wilkinson’s book got me curious enough about Didion and Dunne’s collaborations to visit or revisit all seven of their ...
Joan Didion was famously reserved. But she openly adored John Wayne and Old Hollywood
Joan Didion fell in love with movies as a girl but would sour on Hollywood after working there, Alissa Wilkinson writes in ...
What Hollywood meant to Joan Didion
We Tell Ourselves Stories,” by Alissa Wilkinson, looks at how Didion both shaped and was shaped by the movies.
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Joan Didion made her mark on L.A. Here are 10 places she knew and loved
Joan Didion ... she wrote for her husband, John Gregory Dunne, transcribing intimate sessions she had with a psychiatrist in the 1990s. And whether she intended to or not, Didion has become ...
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Joan Didion’s official archive is going on view at the New York Public Library next month
The New York Public Library is opening up its archives of Joan Didion and her husband Gregory Dunne ... make the papers of Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne available to our communities of ...
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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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A Joan Didion archive is opening at the New York Public Library next month
A couple of years ago, the New York Public Library purchased the late Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne’s archive, announcing that, once processed, the collection would be available to anyone ...
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 ...