Audio
Click here: Didion at the Brooklyn Book Festival
As part of the “Consequences to Come” panel discussion, Joan Didion talks about how the “stories” told by the administration and the campaigns obscure our understanding of political reality. Visit nybooks.com/podcasts for the entire conversation.
Click here: Slate.com Audio Book Club
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Meghan O’Rourke, and Katie Roiphe sit down in the Housing Works Used Book Cafe in New York’s Soho neighborhood to discuss The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion’s memoir of the year following the death of her husband John Gregory Dunne, during which her daughter also came close to death.
Click here: Times Talks
A conversation between Joan Didion and Joseph Lelyveld. Subject: Grief, “The Year of Magical Thinking”, Depression, Mourning, and a look to the Writer’s Future – (TYoMT The Play).
Click here: Don Swaim and Didion
Didion describes her writing style as throwing a lot of ideas down on paper until they form some sort of reasonable pattern. As a writer, she has published many books such as, Miami ( her newest novel at the time), Salvador, Democracy: a Novel, Play It As It Lays, A Book of Common Prayer and many others. She talks about meeting her husband John Gregory Dunne, and what it’s like to live with another writer. They have worked together on films, and they are each other’s editors despite their differing writing styles. (1987).
