They designed the cover before she handed in that piece.”
“Her editors at the Post understood perfectly how she would react. “It was hardly a surprise that she found Haight-Ashbury repugnant,” Menand writes. Louis Menand, reviewing “The Last Love Song” in the New Yorker, gives important background on “Slouching,” the book that made Didion’s name. Millennials learned an uncomfortable truth about Didion’s politics. Her famous packing list became a shopping slideshow her famous shades made her the star of a Céline ad, an icon of fragility and resilience.Īnd then, in 2015, an unauthorized biography by Tracy Daugherty, “ The Last Love Song,” was published. Circa 2012, she was the writer nearly every young woman wanted to be. Her two memoirs of horrific loss, “ The Year of Magical Thinking” and “ Blue Nights,” punctured Didion’s unobtainable aura in a way that, paradoxically, only amplified her status. There she is, leaning on that yellow Corvette, perched by that massive typewriter, side-eyeing her family on that Malibu balcony. She is also, thanks to her equal mastery of images, one of its greatest icons. Joan Didion is one of America’s greatest writers. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores.
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