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Didion wrote 19 books and, with Dunne, six screenplays, including the 1976 “ A Star is Born” remake starring Barbra Streisand, and Al Pacino vehicle “The Panic in Needle Park.” (Unproduced was their widely admired Norman Mailer adaptation “The Deer Park.”) They adapted two of their novels, Didion’s bestseller “Play It as It Lays” (1970) and Dunne’s “True Confessions” (1977), into Hollywood movies, starring, respectively, Tuesday Weld as a B-movie actress, and Robert De Niro as a Monsignor who clashes with his homicide cop brother (Robert Duvall).

Didion and Dunne were part of the fabric of ’70s and ’80s Hollywood, writing countless essays and criticism. Also included are three previously uncollected texts by Didion: ?In Praise of Unhung Wreaths and Love? (1969) a much-excerpted 1975 commencement address at UC Riverside and ?The Year of Hoping for Stage Magic? (2007).Bradley Cooper Recalls Being Mocked by Peers for Oscar Nominations: ‘Go F*ck Yourself’ĭidion’s first novel “Run River” (1963) was set in her hometown of Sacramento, and her 2003 memoir, “Where I Was From,” looked back on her days in California. The book includes more than 50 artists ranging from Brice Marden and Ed Ruscha to Betye Saar, Vija Clemins and many others, with works in all mediums including painting, ephemera, photography, sculpture, video and film. (Didion and her late husband moved from New York to Los Angeles in 1964, where they worked as highly successful screenwriters, producing scripts for 1971's The Panic in Needle Park and 1976's A Star Is Born, among other works, before returning to New York 20 years later.) And from her New York perch, Didion was able to observe the political scene more closely, writing trenchant pieces about Clinton, El Salvador and most searingly the Central Park Five.

As a Westerner transplanted to New York, Didion was able to look at her native land, its mores and fixed rules of behavior, with the loving and critical eyes of a daughter who got out and went back. In Joan Didion: What She Means, the writer and curator Hilton Als creates a mosaic that explores Didion's life and work and the feeling each generates in her admirers, detractors and critics.Īrranged chronologically, the book highlights Didion's fascination with the two coasts that made her.

An exploration of the visual corollary to Didion's life and work and the feeling that each generates in her admirers, detractors and critics?including artists from Helen Lundeberg to Diane Arbus, Betye Saar to Maren Hassinger, Vija Celmins and Andy Warhol