Breaking News: Joan Didion has died at age 87. Her sharp dispatches on California and tough, terse novels forged a distinct new voice in American writing. https://t.co/Y7Yiv18CS9 pic.twitter.com/flsrs0cChn
— The New York Times (@nytimes) December 23, 2021
For half a century, Joan Didion, who died on Thursday, was the grand diagnostician of American disorder in essays of strong, unmistakable cadence. She wrote her first story at age 5, after her mother told her to stop whining and to write down her thoughts.https://t.co/2vf0igpboO
— The New York Times (@nytimes) December 23, 2021
How many of us first experienced the dizzyingly romantic idea of actually living in NYC through Joan Didion’s poignant essay about needing, for her sanity, to leave it? pic.twitter.com/2PZpCHvToZ
— Michael Barbaro (@mikiebarb) December 23, 2021
Very few writers now or in the past could take a picture like Joan Didion. To have a depth that more than stands up to the surface is extraordinary. pic.twitter.com/XyVKcZspmA
— Thomas Chatterton Williams (@thomaschattwill) December 23, 2021