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Bestselling Author Gay Talese is Back with Some of His Best
Talese is an American writer best known as one of the pioneers of the “New Journalism” movement of the 1960s and 70s, along ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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.
Didion is a guide to understanding American culture and its dysfunction, but she’s not the only one
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