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Golden Grouse.(Review)
Political Fictions, by Joan Didion (Knopf, 338 pp., $25)
Getting a hold on Joan Didion, the essayist and novelist, is tricky. She's someone who as a high-school girl in central California "on the whole preferred to spend time" with people who "hung out in gas stations." This she states on the first page of the first of the essays in this book. On the other hand, she writes mainly for The New York Review of Books, from which these essays about the last four presidential elections are collected, and sees the world much as do the bulk of its readers. You won't find the NYRB on sale in any gas-station magazine racks.
With all her contradictions, Didion is ...
- Didion's 'Los Angeles Notebook.' (Joan Didion)
- Magazine article from: The Explicator Wells, Walter March 22, 1994 700+ words
...metaphor in American writing, the third section of Joan Didion's "Los Angeles Notebook"--a slight, self-contained narrative...sated and finished. (Remember, too, that "Los Angeles Notebook," the essay in which the supermarket...
- Didion's LOS ANGELES NOTEBOOK.(author Joan Didion)(Brief Article)(Critical...
- Magazine article from: The Explicator WELLS, WALTER June 22, 1994 700+ words
...metaphor in American writing, the third section of Joan Didion's "Los Angeles Notebook"--a slight, self-contained narrative...sated and finished. (Remember, too, that "Los Angeles Notebook," the essay in which the supermarket...
- Joan Didion Named Winner of Los Angeles Times Kirsch Award.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire March 10, 2006 700+ words
...10 /PRNewswire/ -- Joan Didion has been named the winner of the 26th annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes' Robert...finalists for the 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes during...UCLA's Royce Hall in Los Angeles as the lead-in to the...
- Joan Didion's backward glance; she's a New Yorker now, but the writer still has...
- Magazine article from: WWD Reginato, James April 27, 1992 700+ words
NEW YORK -- Joan Didion and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, pulled up their stakes in Los Angeles four years ago. But California is still palpable at the couple's current address. Upon entry to their Manhattan apartment...
- Joan Didion. (interview with writer)(Interview)
- Magazine article from: Interview Marvel, Mark September 1, 1996 700+ words
...powers of observation, Joan Didion's writing consistently...American life As a person, Joan Didion is as elegant and angular...married Dunne and moved to Los Angeles. Her reports on the...it out for yourself. JOAN DIDION: Yeah, you're right...
- The searcher.(Where I Was From by Joan Didion)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: The Nation Als, Hilton July 12, 2004 700+ words
...Where I was From. By Joan Didion. Knopf. 226 pp...novelist and essayist Joan Didion wrote "John Wayne...Estudio Churubusco, Joan Didion has become the heroine...Hawaii in the 1970s. The Los Angeles Municipal Court in 1989...
- The name of the pose In joan Didion's lean and diamond-hard prose, a npvel of a...
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Gail Caldwell, Globe Staff September 8, 1996 700+ words
THE LAST THING HE WANTED By Joan Didion. Knopf. 227 pp. $23. Those of us who have admired Joan Didion over the years -- through the perilous...elite, also former reporter -- for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, back in '64, and then...
- Joan Didion: a writer of scope and substance.
- Magazine article from: Hollins Critic Felton, Sharon October 1, 1989 700+ words
...Establishing support for my claim that Joan Didion is a writer of scope is easy enough...a maturing and expanding vision--Joan Didion's canon offers impressive support...prove authorial scope; in which case, Joan Didion demonstrates a breadth Of talent matched...
Source: HighBeam Research, Golden Grouse.(Review)