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  1. Collected Essays by Joan Didion

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  2. Finally! In her new book of essays, Joan Didion tells us how she became

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  3. Read 12 Masterful Essays by Joan Didion for Free Online, Spanning Her

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  4. Joan Didion dead at 87: Essential books, essays to read now

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  5. Beyond the Books: Joan Didion’s Essays, Profiles and Criticism

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  6. Joan Didion dead at 87: Essential books, essays to read now

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  1. Read 12 Masterful Essays by Joan Didion for Free Online, Spanning Her

    The essay appears in 1967's Slouch­ing Towards Beth­le­hem, a rep­re­sen­ta­tive text of the lit­er­ary non­fic­tion of the six­ties along­side the work of John McPhee, Ter­ry South­ern, Tom Wolfe, and Hunter S. Thomp­son.In Didion's case, the empha­sis must be decid­ed­ly on the lit­er­ary—her essays are as skill­ful­ly and imag­i­na­tive­ly ...

  2. Joan Didion dead at 87: Essential books, essays to read now

    If any subset of her work made Didion's reputation for "inevitable" sentences, it is the personal essays collected in "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" (1968) and "The White Album" (1979 ...

  3. Joan Didion's Best Books: A Guide

    The Joan Didion many people know is constructed from a few artifacts the real writer left behind when she died in 2021.There's her much-imitated (and sometimes parodied) 1967 essay "Goodbye to ...

  4. Joan Didion's best books, from essays to fiction

    Here are the best books by Joan Didion: 'The Year of Magical Thinking' (2005) Quintana Roo Dunne leans on a railing with her parents, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion, in 1976.

  5. Joan Didion: A guide to five of her most influential books

    Although Slouching Towards Bethlehem wasn't Didion's first book (Run, River of 1963 was), it was the one that cemented her as a prominent writer. A collection of essays about California in the ...

  6. 9 Joan Didion Essays Every Woman Should Read Before Turning 25

    The Gospel According to Didion inspires special devotion in women under 40, as many of Didion's most beloved personal essays and journalistic work concern her time in New York and California in ...

  7. On Self-Respect: Joan Didion's 1961 Essay from the Pages of

    Joan Didion, author, journalist, and style icon, died today after a prolonged illness.She was 87 years old. Here, in its original layout, is Didion's seminal essay "Self-respect: Its Source ...

  8. Beyond the Books: Joan Didion's Essays, Profiles and Criticism

    Joan Didion, who died on Thursday at 87, is best known for her essay collections — "Slouching Towards Bethlehem," "The White Album" and "After Henry," to name a few — though she ...

  9. Let Me Tell You What I Mean

    Let Me Tell You What I Mean is a collection of essays by Joan Didion published on January 26, 2021. It was her last published book before her death on December 23, 2021. The book includes 12 essays, written between 1968 and 2000, and a foreword by critic Hilton Als.Like many of Didion's previous essay collections, the pieces in the book represent a mixture of reporting, memoir and criticism.

  10. 10 essays that will get you hooked on Joan Didion

    Forty plus years later, this essay still inspires much debate. Joan Didion writing about the women's movement may seem like pure fan service today, but in 1972 this was actually a contentious essay.