Our pop culture expert on the lessons she’s learned from one of America’s greatest living writersThe glamour of Joan Didion,83, lies not in the many incredible photographs of her during her long life. Nor is it in that horrible quasi-sheen that we associate with surviving terrible loss. It’s not in the lifestyle choices she made – living in novel York one year, and relocating to a home right on a California beach another – and it’s not in the interactions she had with Hollywood royalty,from Warren Beatty (who had a crush on her) to Harrison Ford (who worked as her carpenter for a time). It does not lie in the era-defining work she published in the 1960s and 70s, solo or co-written with husband John Gregory Dunne. No, or the glamour of Joan Didion is merely in her willingness to try things. Truly,there is nothing more luxe than that: the decision to dip your toe, your foot, or your leg and eventually your enitre body into a novel endeavour,and just carry out it. Related: Why I’m channelling Blanche DuBois Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk