Joan Didion’s incredibly expensive estate sale turned me into a literary voyeur
2 years, 1 month ago

Joan Didion’s incredibly expensive estate sale turned me into a literary voyeur

The Independent  

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Joan Didion’s old things went up for auction this week, and I’d love to say I had no interest in owning them. I’d love to say I hadn’t even bothered to peek at the online catalogue for “An American Icon: Property From the Collection of Joan Didion”, the estate sale held by Stair Galleries. Any serious fan would recognise the mammoth writing desk for sale as the same one that featured in the 1976 Life magazine photo spread with Didion’s husband John Dunne and their daughter Quintana Roo. open image in gallery Objects from Joan Didion’s estate sale Anyone who’s read Didion’s 2005 memoir The Year of Magical Thinking knows the devastating impact her husband’s sudden death had on her.

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Joan Didion: Revered writer who chronicled American culture
3 years ago

Joan Didion: Revered writer who chronicled American culture

The Independent  

Joan Didion, a virtuosic prose stylist who for more than four decades explored the agitated, fractured state of the American psyche in her novels, essays, criticism and memoirs, and who as one of the “New Journalists” of the 1960s and 70s helped reportorial non-fiction acquire the status of an art form, has died aged 87. “Long before what I wrote …

Joan Didion, peerless prose stylist, dies at 87
3 years ago

Joan Didion, peerless prose stylist, dies at 87

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Joan Didion, the revered author and essayist whose precise social and personal commentary in such classics as “The White Album” and “The Year of Magical Thinking” made her a uniquely clear-eyed critic of turbulent times, has died. Tiny and frail even as a young woman, with large, sad eyes often hidden behind sun glasses and a soft, …

Review: New volume brings together 12 Joan Didion essays
3 years, 10 months ago

Review: New volume brings together 12 Joan Didion essays

Associated Press  

“Let Me Tell You What I Mean,” by Joan Didion Back in 1968, Joan Didion identified a problem with the mainstream media. “The only American newspapers that do not leave me in the grip of a profound physical conviction that the oxygen has been cut off from my brain, very probably by an Associated Press wire …,” she begins in …

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