Joan Didion
Summary
Joan Didion (born December 5, 1934) is an American author best known for her novels and personalized, journalistic essays. The disintegration of American morals and cultural chaos upon which her essays comment are explored more fully in her novels, where the overriding theme is individual and social fragmentation. A sense of anxiety or dread permeates much of her work.Joan Didion was born in Sacramento, California, to parents Frank Reese and Eduene (Jerrett) Didion. Didion recalls writing things down as early as age five, though she claims that she never saw herself as a writer until after being published. She read everything she could get her hands on after learning how to read and even needed written permission from her mother to borrow adult books, biographies especially, from the library at a young age.
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NYRB celebrates its 50th
Photo Credit: Beowulf Sheehan Joan Didion looked tiny and frail on Tuesday night, swimming in her loose, gray top as she walked, assisted, to a chair and table set for her center stage at Town Hall in New York City. Didion was one of a menagerie of beloved authors who read and reminisced for.
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How I learned to talk dirty with Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron is not my favorite writer of all time, but for more than 30 years she has been my favorite female writer, or woman writer, or writer who happens to be a woman.
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Tweeting the novel – how writers are playing with Twitter
Twitter presents special challenges to us all. Its 140 characters require a certain amount of thought and crafting, but what about when it comes to novelists, the ultimate in long form writing?.
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Robert Teitelman: Andersen and DeLong Review the Past
Kurt Andersen opens up an essay in the recent Vanity Fair with a cliché -- indisputably true but a cliché nonetheless: "The past is a foreign country. " This is good, because Andersen is indulging in the cultural version of the sports argument in the neighborhood bar or those lists so beloved by slick magazines.
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Jill Robinson: I've Got a Bus. Ready to Roll?
Steve Lopez of the Los Angeles Times mentioned in his article, "Put Occupy L. A. On the Road", that you can pick up an old bus for as low as $900. This could be useful for shuttling satellite Occupy forces. I might feel bleak about not being able to fit it up with sets of very cute mini-espresso makers in all seven colors, or monogrammed fake badger fur throws from holiday catalogues.
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Steve Jobs: Inventor And Artist
In an era in which accolades often seem devalued by overuse, Steve Jobs was that rare figure who really did leave an imprint as enormous as his outsized reputation. As much as anyone who lived during his years, he altered and updated the nature of many aspects of modern reality.
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8 Key Lessons the CBC Learned Working with Citizen Journos
The 2010 G20 summit in Toronto marked the first time the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation collaborated with citizen journalists on a large and integrated scale.
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