Sara Davidson, a young reporter, met Joan before she became Joan Didion — the beloved author of best-selling books that people would carry around and quote. Joan was deeply private, but she let down her guard with Sara, who would later write Loose Change and other best-selling books. They shared meals, and laughter, and often stayed up late, talking about the craft of writing, marriage, raising their children, and why Joan refused an advance from Warren Beatty. Funny, intimate, and deep, this is the Joan Didion you’ve never seen or heard, behind the books, dark glasses, and the camera.
Buy The Didion FilesSara Davidson first captured America’s imagination with her N.Y. Times best seller, Loose Change, about three women growing up in the Sixties. In her many books, articles, TV shows and radio interviews, she’s earned a reputation as a social observer who does cutting edge pieces about the way we live.
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February, 17, 2024
It was a shock: seeing him recently on the cover of the…. not the Rolling Stone, but the WSJ (Wall Street Journal magazine.) He still has that arrogant/elegant/nasty vibe, but his face! The skin is deeply wrinkled, not like the wrinkles most of us have, but thick, weather-beaten folds and ridges that start between his eyebrows and run all the way down his cheeks to his neck.
