Joan Didion’s persona has loomed as large as her literary canon. That photograph of her holding a cigarette just so, daring the camera to reveal what she’s thinking, says it all: You will be unable to ...
Reading the newly released “Notes to John,” it’s hard not to wonder how the late author Joan Didion would feel about having her personal notes from a series of painful therapy sessions converted into ...
A sense of stagnation and stillness when what I want is for the book to open, open, open into something expansive and true.
Joan Didion kept notes of her therapy sessions. In 46 entries dating back to December 1999, she discussed alcoholism, depression, anxiety and the complex relationship with her daughter, Quintana Roo ...
Zell Visiting Writer Christina Sharpe reads from her book, “Ordinary Notes,” in the UMMA Stern Auditorium Thursday evening. Christina Sharpe speaks into a microphone on a wooden podium. Julianne ...
If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. The book, out April 22, compiles Didion’s journal entries about her experience in psychiatry Penguin Random House; Carlos ...
Since there are absolutely no readings of interest happening in town tonight, here are some links to tide you over until Richard Russo, Daphne Beal, Paul Auster and Chuck Klosterman all hit town this ...
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