Lili Anolik’s joint biography “Didion & Babitz” follows the complicated relationship between two prolific Californian writers, Joan Didion and Eve Babitz. At least, that’s how the book is advertised.
Readers can decide when “Notes to John,” which shows the writer grappling with guilt and vulnerability, is published next week. By Alexandra Alter In the summer of 2000, Joan Didion was mired in ...
In her 1976 essay, “Why I Write,” Joan Didion described herself as the kind of writer “whose most absorbed and passionate hours are spent arranging words on pieces of paper.” Had she been an ordered ...
Joan Didion is dead. She was a writer. She lived in New York, for the most part. But she was Scottish, in manner and method. Didion was not a golfer, though she wrote a novel called Play it as it Lays ...
In November 1999, writer Joan Didion started seeing Roger MacKinnon, a New York psychiatrist, on the recommendation of the psychiatrist who was treating her daughter Quintana for borderline ...
Los Angeles Times: When Joan and Eve were pals: ‘Didion & Babitz’ explores the unlikely bond between two seminal L.A. writers
When Joan and Eve were pals: ‘Didion & Babitz’ explores the unlikely bond between two seminal L.A. writers
Yahoo: 6 writers remember Joan Didion, L.A.'s literary prophet who 'remains full of surprise'
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Chloe Cushman / For The Times) To live in Los Angeles is to live in Joan Didion’s world. On what would have been the writer’s ...
6 writers remember Joan Didion, L.A.'s literary prophet who 'remains full of surprise'