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The cover image of Notes to John, a photograph by Annie Leibovitz, captures Joan Didion seated in an office, gazing up ...
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Joan Didion Undone
Notes to John, posthumously published journal entries chronicling Didion’s therapy sessions, is a peek into the myths and ...
There were only a few months between the announcement that a folder of journal entries had been found in Joan Didion’s office shortly after her death and the publication of them as “Notes to John” ...
Joan Didion's 'Notes to John' published posthumously Didion's book is an intimate chronicle of the author's struggle to help her daughter, ... which she addressed to her husband, John Gregory Dunne.
T he collection of descriptions of therapy sessions that Joan Didion wrote is being published under the title Notes to John, but it’s soon apparent, reading them, that these notes aren’t ...
The question haunting Joan Didion's 'Notes to John' is whether such a private person would have wanted her intimate, unedited reflections (including parental doubts) to be shared with readers.
Reading "Notes to John", Joan Didion's posthumously published book of post-therapy jottings, left me "feeling a little grubby at being privy to such an intrusion", said Catherine Jarvie in The i ...
The notes seem to be composed for an audience of one: They are addressed at times to her husband, John Gregory Dunne. Didion left no instructions about the document, so nobody knows how she would ...
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