Didion has become, in recent decades, a fashion icon, the ultimate literary It Girl, a model for a 1989 Gap ad, and a face of Celine’s 2015 eyewear campaign. Her influence is likewise apparent in ...

“With a girl like Joan Didion, you just don’t tell her ... a model for a 1989 Gap ad, and a face of Celine’s 2015 eyewear ...

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Lili Anolik turns a cache of letters between Joan Didion and Eve Babitz into a book about the unlikely friendship between two ...

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In an excerpt from her new book, ‘Didion and Babitz’, the writer Lili Anolik tells the story of Joan Didion’s first years in ...

Below, find out once and for all if you’re a Joan Didion or an Eve Babitz. Which historical period or event has most informed your worldview? A. The Donner Party. B. Old Hollywood. So you want ...

JOAN DIDION and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, came to L.A. from New York in the summer of 1964. Both had worked as journalists. (She for Vogue; he for Time.) Both wanted to write books.