The author on taking solace in Joan Didion, discovering Donna Tartt and being cheered up by David Sedaris
My earliest reading memory
The first books I became obsessed with were Enid Blyton’s boarding…
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Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: why September is an ideal time to update your look ○
This is a powerful month for fashion, and an ideal time to try a waistcoat, wider trousers, a shorter skirt or a splash of saturated colour
‘Every day is all there is”, as Joan Didion put it, rather e…
Latte-swilling ‘performative males’: why milky drinks are shorthand for liberal ○
Americans are fretting over a type of man who drinks matcha and expresses alternative masculinity – but the ‘latte liberal’ stereotype has existed for decades
Another week, another somewhat fictional …
10 months ago
Notes to John by Joan Didion review – an invasion of privacy ○
There’s a crude fascination in seeing the contents of a literary celebrity’s therapy sessions, but no one comes out of it well
Motherhood is a state of continuous loss that is meant to culminate when …
Notes to John by Joan Didion review – a writer on the couch ○
There’s a crude fascination in seeing the contents of a literary celebrity’s therapy sessions, but we’re surely invading her privacy
Motherhood is a state of continuous loss that is meant to culminate…
I’ve never kept a diary. But if I had, I’d want it destroyed when I die ○
From Samuel Pepys to Joan Didion, many literary greats wrote for no one but themselves – then found posterity pawing through their secrets. Trust me: you don’t want to know my innermost thoughts
A few…
The Guardian view on posthumously publishing Joan Didion: goodbye to all that | Editorial ○
Would the legendary American writer have welcomed the publication of her therapy notes? It seems unlikely
Joan Didion entered the fray on the publication of Ernest Hemingway’s unfinished final manuscr…
‘I dealt with everyone at a distance’: what do Joan Didion’s therapy diaries reveal about guilt, motherhood and writing? ○
The writer’s previously unpublished notes from her sessions with a psychiatrist offer an incredibly intimate insight into her relationship with her daughter, depression and creativity
Last month, the …
12 months ago
Literary gold … or betrayal of trust? Joan Didion journal opens ethical minefield ○
Soon we can all read the late author’s private notes about her therapy. But should we?
In 1998, the late journalist Joan Didion wrote a scathing essay about the posthumous publication of True at First…
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