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 ...
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 ...
In ‘We Tell Ourselves Stories,’ Alissa Wilkinson Explores Joan Didion’s Time in Hollywood: ‘It’s a New Framework to Look at Her Work’
Alissa Wilkinson's book explores Joan Didion's work as a film critic and screenwriter and what she understood about Hollywood ...
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.
Bookish Beefs: Do You Know the Great Author Feuds of Modern Literature?
One literary rival said of Ernest Hemingway, “He has no courage, has never crawled out on a limb. He has never been known to ...
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 ...
Didion is a guide to understanding American culture and its dysfunction, but she’s not the only one
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Joan Didion was famously reserved. But she openly adored John Wayne and Old Hollywood
Joan Didion, pictured during her L.A. days, was an unabashed fan of Old Hollywood, author Alissa Wilkinson writes in her new book about the famously reserved essayist and author. (Henry Clarke ...
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In ‘We Tell Ourselves Stories,’ Alissa Wilkinson spotlights Didion’s influence, and Hollywood’s
The cultural biography “We Tell Ourselves Stories” explores Joan Didion’s relationship with Hollywood and the impact it had ...