# Joan Didion
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joan didion (; born December 5, 1934) is an American writer who launched her career in the 1960s after winning an essay contest sponsored by Vogue magazine. Didion's writing during the 1960s through the late 1970s engaged audiences in the realities of the counterculture of the 1960s and the Hollywood lifestyle. Her political writing often concentrated on the subtext of political and social rhetoric.
265. Discovering How to Slow Down and Sit with Ourselves During the Writing Process featuring Karson Brown
Karson Brown joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about crossing the Atlantic ocean on a 34-foot sailboat from Portugal when she was 29 years old, the 13 years it took to put her story into book form, the learning process of becoming a writer, offering a little more for readers and less for o…
Win The Season Sponsored by Fast Break Playbook-Episode #97 Scheduling "Your Time"
We're all given the same amount of time on this earth; 60 seconds a minute, 60 minutes an hour, 24 hours a day, so you have to prioritize your time and how you are going to spend it, especially on yourself. Today's podcast is all about protecting your time, how to make sure that you stay fresh as t…
Griffin Dunne: Grief, Family Scandals, Joan Didion, & Learning to Get Away With It
Griffin Dunne has had a rather extraordinary front row seat to cultural history, while also making quite a lot of it himself. He is an actor, director, producer, and writer - a consummate storyteller.
As an actor, he gave us two of the most memorable cult films of the 1980s, An American Werewolf in…
Battling Hollywood to Save It: The One with Paul Fischer
In 1977 I was third in line for the first showing of Star Wars on its opening day at the Coronet theater in San Francisco. It was the first time I had ever seen people line up for a movie.
The atmosphere was incredible. A movie the studios anticipated would do little business was on its way to beco…
The Nobel Prize and Pushing Boundaries
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live." – Joan Didion
On Express Yourself!® Teen Radio, host Allison Lu discusses the recent Nobel Prize recipient Karl Deisseroth, and the larger question of what it means to push the boundaries of what's possible, from groundbreaking scientific discoveries t…
Every Object Has a Story: Lady Carnarvon and Eve Chase on The Secret Thread, sisters, secrets and the lives we leave behind
Lady Carnarvon welcomes novelist Eve Chase to discuss her latest book, The Secret Thread, a dual-timeline story (1969 and today) shaped around an auction in which famed interior designer Mimi “Mo” sells her estate and reveals her life through meaningful objects; an idea sparked by seeing Joan Didio…
All Souls Day - Dreams of Our Loved Ones - Volume 3
"And when your sorrow is comforted ( time soothes all sorrows ) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure . . .. And your friends will be properly astonished to see you la…
Swift Ink Reads with Paula Langton: Book Club Recap
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Lara Tupper talks with actor/educator Paula Langton about Dar Williams' book, What I Found in a Thousand Towns and how it applies to Becket, MA. Plus, Joan Didion's A Year of Magical Thinking.
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Encore: The Nobel Prize and Pushing Boundaries
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live." – Joan Didion
On Express Yourself!® Teen Radio, host Allison Lu discusses the recent Nobel Prize recipient Karl Deisseroth, and the larger question of what it means to push the boundaries of what's possible, from groundbreaking scientific discoverie…
Luke Goebel, author of 'Kill Dick'
An art installation in a homeless encampment that points a finger at opioid manufacturers while a serial killer stalks the city; that's just part of Luke Goebel's Kill Dick, a multifaceted novel that plumbs the depths of L.A. fiction's best traits. Then, Ed Simon returns to talk about the value of …
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