Joan Didion Knew the Stories We’d Tell About the Manson Murders
OUTSIDE of its famous first line — “we tell ourselves stories in order to live” — “The White Album” is most often cited in retellings of the era’s most notorious…
25 Years Ago, Joan Didion Kept a Diary. It’s About to Become Public.
In December 1999, around her 65th birthday, Joan Didion started writing a journal after sessions with her psychiatrist. Over the next year or so, she kept notes about their conversations,…