Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joan Didion, pictured during her L.A. days, was an unabashed fan of Old Hollywood, author Alissa Wilkinson writes in her new book ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2020, film critic Alissa Wilkinson started working on a book project about Joan Didion. She wanted to explore the iconic ...

To the editor: Because none of your literary commentators on Joan Didion mentioned her work as a screenwriter, they missed what may be her best writing about Los Angeles: “Strangers in Hollywood,” ...

We are always telling ourselves — or being told — stories. Stories projected from bright and booming big screens; stories on pages pressed with ink; stories in the corners of our minds, those places ...

The film paints a dreamlike day in the life of Didion and California in the late 1960s, when the brilliant young journalist is hurtled from encounters with jailed Manson girls to protesting Black ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a 1939 essay, the critic Philip Rahv argued that there have been two main types in American literature: the solemn and ...

‘This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend,” a cynical editor remarks toward the end of “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,” co-starring one of multitalented novelist and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Chloe Cushman / For The Times) To live in Los Angeles is to live in Joan Didion’s world. On what would have been the writer’s ...

If Joan Didion had an overarching preoccupation as a journalist and novelist, it was to find interstices where truth and myth blend into each other. In many of the essays that were collected in the ...

In 2020, film critic Alissa Wilkinson started working on a book project about Joan Didion. She wanted to explore the iconic essayist, reporter, novelist and playwright through an angle that hadn’t ...