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Joan Didion’s diary of post-therapy notes goes to be printed
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Joan Didion’s diary of post-therapy notes goes to be printed

Last updated: February 6, 2025 1:31 am
Editorial Board Published February 6, 2025
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Joan Didion stored notes of her remedy classes.

In 46 entries relationship again to December 1999, she mentioned alcoholism, melancholy, anxiousness and the complicated relationship along with her daughter, Quintana Roo Dunne. Addressed to her husband, John Gregory Dunne, these never-before-seen notes have been discovered stashed in a submitting cupboard beside Didion’s desk in her Manhattan house and shall be printed later this 12 months in “Notes to John” — the American author’s first posthumous launch.

In 1999, the Sacramento native’s household was going by way of “a rough few years,” in response to a letter she wrote to a good friend. Providing a peek into Didion’s psyche, the non-public accounts deal with themes she later explored in her early-2000s writings, together with “Where I Was From,” “The Year of Magical Thinking” and “Blue Nights.” Every entry shall be printed virtually completely unedited, aside from corrected typos and added footnotes. The unique manuscripts shall be made out there on the New York Public Library on March 26 as part of Didion and Dunne’s joint archives.

Finest identified for chronicling the counterculture of the Nineteen Sixties and ’70s with essays like “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” and “The White Album,” Didion spent her life writing about her astute observations. The author, who dabbled in each fiction and nonfiction, is taken into account one of many pioneers of New Journalism. She suffered from Parkinson’s illness and died in 2021 at age 87.

The ebook, “Notes to John,” shall be printed in hardcover and e book by Knopf on April 22. Penguin Random Home will launch the audiobook.

“Everything we revere about Joan Didion is instantly apparent in these pages — the precision, the fierce intelligence, the piercing insights, the withering interrogation of her own motives. Yet this is also Joan Didion as we have never seen her before — open, vulnerable, wrestling with raw emotion,” Jordan Pavlin — Knopf govt vice chairman, writer and editor-in-chief — mentioned in a press launch. “‘Notes to John’ is an extraordinarily intimate record of a painful and courageous journey in the life of one of the greatest writers of our time.”

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