Contributor: From the Palisades to Palos Verdes, L.A.'s altered landscapes challenge memory itself
Like the Palisades fire, the Palos Verdes landslide is erasing an entire place — including a home of Joan Didion, who wrote ...
From the Palisades to Palos Verdes, L.A.’s altered landscapes challenge memory itself
Like the Palisades fire, the Palos Verdes landslide is erasing an entire place — including a home of Joan Didion, who wrote ...
21 Nonfiction Books to Read This Spring
A posthumous collection of Joan Didion’s diaries, biographies of Yoko Ono and Mark Twain, a history of The Onion — and plenty ...
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 ...
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.
How the Movies Made Joan Didion a Great American Writer
A new book by Alissa Wilkinson argues that the iconic writer’s imagination and signature style were profoundly shaped by ...
Joan Didion made her mark on L.A. Here are 10 places she knew and loved
Experience Joan Didion’s Los Angeles — her iconic homes, along with the hotels and restaurants she frequented, as two new ...
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 ...
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 ...
Years Later, Play It As It Lays Is Back on the Screen
R eleased in 1972, Frank Perry’s Play It As It Lays is a portrait of modern ennui that hasn’t really lost any of its bite in the intervening 53 years. Which is intriguing, bec ...
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Fifty Years On, ‘Play It As It Lays’ Shines Like a Black Hole
Michael Atkinson's essay on "Play It as It Lays" in the Village Voice notes that this 53-year-old gem still packs an existential punch.
‘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 ...