Sarasota runner caught in Mexico sentenced to 15 years in prison in child pornography case
Sarasota Circuit Court Judge Thomas Krug sentenced Pyle to 15 years in prison, followed by 15 years of probation, a downward ...
I Don’t Want Anyone to Read My Diaries, Yet I Can’t Burn Them
It could be that keeping a diary — “keep” being the operative word — is how we stay true to ourselves, even the embarrassing ...
Contributor: From the Palisades to Palos Verdes, L.A.'s altered landscapes challenge memory itself
Like the Palisades fire, the Palos Verdes landslide is erasing an entire place — including a home of Joan Didion, who wrote ...
In ‘We Tell Ourselves Stories,’ Alissa Wilkinson Explores Joan Didion’s Time in Hollywood: ‘It’s a New Framework to Look at Her Work’
In 2020, film critic Alissa Wilkinson started working on a book project about Joan Didion. She wanted to explore the iconic ...
What Hollywood meant to Joan Didion
We Tell Ourselves Stories,” by Alissa Wilkinson, looks at how Didion both shaped and was shaped by the movies.
How the Movies Made Joan Didion a Great American Writer
A new book by Alissa Wilkinson argues that the iconic writer’s imagination and signature style were profoundly shaped by ...
Joan Didion made her mark on L.A. Here are 10 places she knew and loved
Experience Joan Didion’s Los Angeles — her iconic homes, along with the hotels and restaurants she frequented, as two new ...
Joan Didion was famously reserved. But she openly adored John Wayne and Old Hollywood
Joan Didion fell in love with movies as a girl but would sour on Hollywood after working there, Alissa Wilkinson writes in ...
Revisiting Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne’s Hollywood Era
Wilkinson’s book got me curious enough about Didion and Dunne’s collaborations to visit or revisit all seven of their ...
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Fifty Years On, ‘Play It As It Lays’ Shines Like a Black Hole
Michael Atkinson's essay on "Play It as It Lays" in the Village Voice notes that this 53-year-old gem still packs an existential punch.
Years Later, Play It As It Lays Is Back on the Screen
Frank Perry’s Play It As It Lays is a portrait of modern ennui that hasn’t really lost any of its bite in the intervening 53 years. Which is intriguing, because the picture, adapted by John Gregory ...