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A glimpse into the newly opened archive of Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne
About a year after Joan Didion's death in 2021, the New York Public Library (NYPL) began the process to become the stewards ...
Joan Didion and John Dunne's NYPL Archives are a Treasure Trove
The expansive archive is now open to any New Yorker with a library card.
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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 ... her sideline writing screenplays with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, to make money. (It’s right there in ...
Los Angeles Times17d
Joan Didion was famously reserved. But she openly adored John Wayne and Old Hollywood
Joan Didion’s diary of post-therapy notes, addressed to her husband, John Gregory Dunne, is going to be published in ‘Notes to John.’ Feb. 5, 2025 Wilkinson points out that Didion was an ...
Los Angeles Times16d
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 ...
San Francisco Examiner28d
Joan Didion: Separating the Myth from the Message
It’s an apt analogy for the thesis New York Times movie critic Alissa Wilkinson advances in her new book, “We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan ... husband and fellow writer, the late John Gregory ...
The Washington Post16d
What Hollywood meant to Joan Didion
In her 1964 essay “I Can’t Get That Monster Out of My Mind,” Joan Didion wrote ... arrived a few years after Didion and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, moved to Los Angeles hoping ...
The New Yorker3d
Who Gets to Define Divorce
Mlotek’s divorce came at the end of a thirteen-year relationship: she and her husband met as sixteen ... “I once read in an article that Joan Didion and John Dunne had once considered ...
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Want to Read Joan Didion's Diary? In “Notes to John”, Now We Can: 'Joan Didion As We Have Never Seen Her Before'
Three years after the beloved writer's death comes a new nonfiction book, comprised of notes about visits with her psychiatrist Joan ... to her husband, John Gregory Dunne. The series of notes ...
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‘This Is Us’ Alum Griffin Dunne Opens Up About His New ‘Complex Role’ in ‘Ex-Husbands’ Movie
Griffin Dunne never planned on acting. Born into a Hollywood family, he was set on something else — journalism, inspired by his aunt and uncle, writers Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne.
The New York Times16d
How the Movies Made Joan Didion a Great American Writer
WE TELL OURSELVES STORIES: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine ... Image After returning to California with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, in 1964, she tried to break into Hollywood.
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From the Palisades to Palos Verdes, L.A.’s altered landscapes challenge memory itself
In the 1960s, when Didion and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, lived on the peninsula in a Spanish-style gatehouse, Didion observed the “slump of the hill” making its strange descent into the ...