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by | Sep 6, 2025

We’re in a celebratory mood at The American Spectator. Dan Flynn, TAS senior editor, star columnist, and purveyor of the…

by | Apr 24, 2025

Well, it looks as if it’s time once again for my more or less annual piece about Joan Didion. I…

by | Dec 14, 2024

Didion & Babitz By Lili Anolik (Scribner, 352 pages, $30) When I saw that a new book was out entitled…

by | Sep 20, 2023

I never met Tom Wolfe, even though we shared friends and editors and agents and both lived for a long…

by | Nov 26, 2022

This is Saturday. My 78th birthday was yesterday, November 25, 2022. I am so blessed to be celebrating it in…

by | Nov 9, 2022

Some famous writers are forgotten the moment they kick off. Joan Didion, who passed away at age 87 two days…

by | Dec 24, 2021

A sad day here just before Christmas. Joan Didion is dead. Please let me tell you about Joan Didion and…

by | Dec 24, 2021

Joan Didion, who died on Thursday at the age of 87, was a California girl, born to an affluent family…

by | Jun 26, 2021

Recently, confronted with the prospect of a day trip to a remote hamlet to file some official papers, I decided…

by | Jan 24, 2021

I suspect Joan Didion would be amused to learn that I keep her on my obituary watch. The 86-year-old essayist…

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