It’s a play about grief that’s unsentimental and easy to absorb and so personal. That’s how Pamela Vogel describes The Year of Magical Thinking about to open at…
Read more Employing Magical Thinking to Get Past the Crushing Loss of Loved Ones at Main Street TheaterSacramento City College honored the late author Joan Didion by renaming its learning center after her. Didion, who was born in Sacramento in 1934, was a student at…
Read more Sacramento City College renames library to honor renowned author Joan DidionBecause The Bikeriders is filled with so much death and tragedy, it’s to be expected that writer-director Jeff Nichols might want to throw the audience “a bone.” Even…
Read more The Bikeriders Ending: Not Necessarily a “Happy” OneOne wonders, sometimes, if there was ever truly a period in U.S. history that was “golden,” so much as the nation being in an ever-increasing state of decline…
Read more The Bikeriders: America in Decay and Contentious Generational Divides Have Long Been a Motif of the NationIrving Penn. ‘Hippie Family (Kelley),’ San Francisco, 1967. Platinum-palladium print. 16 5/8 × 14 3/16 in. (42.2 × 36 cm). The Irving Penn Foundation The other day, Page…
Read more One Fine Show: Irving Penn’s San Francisco Summer of LoveHells Angel (Doug), San Francisco, 1967. Gelatin silver print. Image: 18 13/16x 19 11/16 in. (47.8 x 50 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of The Irving…
Read more At the de Young, Irving Penn’s Genius Is On Full DisplayNEW YORK (AP) — The archives of the late Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, spanning from letters and wedding pictures to manuscripts and screenplay drafts, have been…
Read more Didion-Dunne archives acquired by New York Public LibraryAlong with announcing that her next album will be released March 10th, the same day as Lana Del Rey’s Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean…
Read more Miley Cyrus Heavily Imitates Lana Del Rey Stylings in Teaser for Endless Summer VacationIn the wake of Joan Didion’s death last year, I wrote this essay as I struggled to process the immense amount of sadness I felt for the loss…
Read more “The Artists Who Turn Us Into Artists Are Like Family”: Maggie Rogers Remembers Joan Didion a Year After Her DeathWelcome to Shelf Life, ELLE.com’s books column, in which authors share their most memorable reads. Whether you’re on the hunt for a book to console you, move you…
Read more Sofia Coppola on Joan Didion, ‘I’m Glad My Mom Died,’ and the Book That Broke Her Heart
