Olivia Nuzzi and the return of ‘celebrity journalism’
She didn’t invent the game she’s playing
Joan didion
Tuesday
Tuesday
Joan Didion’s unedited record of therapy is morbidly fascinating
It is the great failure of Notes to John that it lacks the writer’s distinctive voice altogether
Thursday
The thrill of being recognized
There are writers and journalists who get public recognition all the time. Alas, I’m not one
Thursday
Inside Joan Didion’s extravagant estate auction
The legendary writer’s iconic Corvette photo sold for $26,000
Wednesday
Searching for the American summer novel
It’s a time of nostalgia, of seeking that which is perpetually, unrecoverably lost
Wednesday
We are all still prisoners of the Sixties
What was formerly outré or unimaginable remains in vogue. But human instinct will win out
Thursday
Joan Didion got inside all of us
She was a woman to whom words mattered, whether writing about the Sixties gone wrong or California identity
Thursday
Bright lights, abandoned city
Americans are no longer moving to their shining cultural capital
