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    • Joan Didion for sale: the auction of the author’s belongings reveals the grand fiction of her image

      Whole generations of writers continue to make themselves in the fantasy of her image, though the affordances of a life in writing are no longer what they were.

    • Remembrance: How Joan Didion's prose helped me through the lockdowns

      Joan Didion's politics were far removed from the sometimes transactional nature of reporting. She observed silently, immersed herself in the environment.

    • Joan Didion and her exit lines

      Joan Didion is, dramatically enough, no more. Her abrupt departure only marking the end of a year that went by in a blur like the previous year, where living is a simultaneous chronicling of loss.

    • She told stories in order to live: The legacy of Joan Didion

      Joan Didion’s death closes the chapter on a life lived in proximity to death and pathos. For the literary world, it means the loss of a powerful voice that comes by occasionally.

    • Tribute: The sources of Joan Didion’s signature style

      “To write with style is to fight lying all the way,” Joan Didion once wrote. What were the origins of her cool, unsentimental sentences on the page?

    • Joan Didion, ‘New Journalist’ who explored culture and chaos, dies at 87

      Ms. Didion came to prominence with a series of incisive, searching feature articles in Life magazine and The Saturday Evening Post that explored the fraying edges of postwar American life.

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