The LA TImes on Joan Didion (December 2021)

Main Obituary

By Elaine Woo / "During a reporting trip to San Francisco..."

https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2021-12-23/joan-didion-dead

A Joan Didion Reading List

By Matt Brennan, Boris Kachka / "Joan Didion produced decades of memorable work across genres..."

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-12-23/joan-didion-best-books-essays-screenplays-reading-guide

Joan Didion and California

By Gustavo Arellano / "The assignment I give my Orange Coast College literary journalism students..."

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-23/joan-didion-california-legacy-column

Joan Didion and Sacramento

By Anita Chabria, Stuart Leavenworth / "The tennis shoes, dirty and worn..."

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-23/joan-didions-strained-ties-with-sacramento-her-hometown-shaped-her-view-of-california

A Look Back at her Writing, Interviews, and More

By Amy Wong / "Here's a collection of past coverage..."

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-12-23/remembering-joan-didion-a-look-back-at-her-writing-interviews-and-more

Goodbye To All That - Seeing Yourself Clearly

By Matt Pearce / "Anyone who's completed..."

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-12-24/joan-didion-goodbye

"I have to look to flat horizons..."

By Barbara Isenberg / "I had known Joan Didion..."

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-12-24/i-have-to-look-at-flat-horizons-joan-didion-on-her-apocalyptic-california-optimism

California's Soul Captured

By George Skelton / "Gov. Newsom believes..."

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-27/skelton-didion-sacramento-remembrance

Writer's Reactions / Often Imitated Rarely Match

By Dorothy Pineda, Julia Wick / "When Mattew Spector decided..."

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-12-24/often-imitated-but-rarely-matched-writers-reflect-on-joan-didions-impact

Joan Didion Didn't Have a Plan

By David L. Ulin / "Joan Didion was a working writer..."

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-12-27/appreciation-like-the-rest-of-us-joan-didion-didnt-have-a-plan-why-that-made-her-great

Joan Didion / Potato Masher

By Carolina A. Miranda / "Can a single object contain..."

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-12-27/joan-didion-california-narrative-of-manifest-destiny-and-a-potato-masher

Didion's Lakewood Not the Only Story 

By D.J. Waldie / "I met Joan Didion in 1993..."

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-12-28/joan-didion-california-suburbs-lakewood

My People Aren't Joan Didion's True Californians...

By Susan Straight / "It could have been coincidence..."

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-12-28/joan-didion-california-some-dreamers-golden-dream

LAT Briefs / Celebrity Reactions (Christi Carras) and Recommendations, Tributes (Links to these LAT articles)

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-12-23/joan-didion-death-celebrity-reactions-twitter

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-12-23/a-guide-to-joan-didion-reading-recommendations-tributes-and-more

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NYTimes Five Joan Didion Movies - Streaming

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/24/movies/joan-didion-movies.html?referringSource=articleShare

New Yorker on Joan Didion (Opposite of Magical Thinking)

By Zodie Smith

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/joan-didion-and-the-opposite-of-magical-thinking

NYT / Jay Caspian Kang on Joan Didion

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/27/opinion/joan-didion-influence-writers.html

NYT / Prophetic Eye on America / Michiko Kaktani

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/24/opinion/joan-didion-books.html

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My "Essay One," LaGaurdia Shuttle, March 2020

https://bqwebpage.blogspot.com/2020/03/joan-didion-essay-one-joshua-wolf-shenk.html

My "Essay Two," Bishop Pike, March 2020

https://bqwebpage.blogspot.com/2020/03/joan-didion-essay-2-from-bishop-pike-to.html