Well, it looks as if it’s time once again for my more or less annual piece about Joan Didion. I didn’t set out to make this a yearly tradition. Way back in 2007, I wrote what I thought was a…
Didion & Babitz By Lili Anolik (Scribner, 352 pages, $30) When I saw that a new book was out entitled Didion & Babitz, my first reaction was to ask: “Who the hell is Babitz?” My second reaction was to buy…
I never met Tom Wolfe, even though we shared friends and editors and agents and both lived for a long time on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. I remember seeing him once, on a fine summer’s day, stepping out…
This is Saturday. My 78th birthday was yesterday, November 25, 2022. I am so blessed to be celebrating it in America, in Beverly Hills, in bed with my Big Wifey, and with my pals, I just cannot adequately express it….
Some famous writers are forgotten the moment they kick off. Joan Didion, who passed away at age 87 two days before Christmas last year, isn’t one of them. It’s not because her work is so monumental. Her screenplays for movies…
A sad day here just before Christmas. Joan Didion is dead. Please let me tell you about Joan Didion and what a great friend she was to my wife and me. I had been a giant super fan of Joan…
Joan Didion, who died on Thursday at the age of 87, was a California girl, born to an affluent family in Sacramento and educated at Berkeley. In her 20s, she spent seven years on the editorial staff of Vogue in…
Recently, confronted with the prospect of a day trip to a remote hamlet to file some official papers, I decided that the journey would pass more painlessly if I had something light to read. I’d just run across a reference…
I suspect Joan Didion would be amused to learn that I keep her on my obituary watch. The 86-year-old essayist is the first person whom, a few years ago, I put on my list of heroes I expect to die…
