Joan Didion skewered fashionable pieties like no other essayist
The American writer, who has died aged 87, latterly became an icon (and a tote bag) for millennials. They can’t have read much of her work
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The American writer, who has died aged 87, latterly became an icon (and a tote bag) for millennials. They can’t have read much of her work
Didion bridged the world of Hollywood, journalism and literature in a career that arced most brilliantly in the realms of social criticism and memoir.
Joan Didion, who died Thursday at 87, produced decades’ worth of memorable work across genres and subjects: personal essays, reporting and criticism on pop culture, political dispatches from at home
The author, who died Thursday, produced decades' worth of memorable work. Here's our guide to starting — or continuing — your Didion journey.