Hints and tips:
...Didion’s desk, which she used at home, sold last year for $60,000. Her desk accessories sold for nearly $20,000....
...The swimming pool was immortalised in pictures by his friend David Hockney....
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is Blue Nights by Joan Didion....
...The gallery scene has exploded and a spate of New York galleries have been or are establishing outposts here, including Pace, Sean Kelly, Marian Goodman and David Zwirner....
...I’d heard it here and there, but it only really clicked when I started meditating, which David Lynch taught me to do – he sent me to a friend of his about a decade ago....
...At the start of her career, Blanchett starred in David Mamet’s Oleanna, which is often cited as a proto-#MeToo play....
...And they look great: part 1970s Joan Didion, part cartoon librarian....
...On the opposite side I’ll put Joan Didion, between me and Ernest Hemingway....
...His work is so character-driven, whether in editorials or in ad campaigns — think of Victoria Beckham emerging from a Marc Jacobs shopping tote, or an octogenarian Joan Didion in a black jumper and sunglasses...
...In “Made to Burn”, Kushner gives readers an insight into the layout of her writing space, describing images by the likes of David Salle, Andy Warhol and Danny Lyon that she pinned to the walls to inspire...
...He inspired Charles Darwin and Henry David Thoreau, and foreshadowed the environmental movement by signalling the harm caused by cutting down forests....
...Can David Hockney’s art really be read as a response to emergency? Can David Bowie’s?...
...Essayist and novelist Joan Didion, who found fame in the 1960s, is as likely as any young novelist to write the next big book....
...With a cast of 20 (including one goat), Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven features numerous other well-sketched characters, such as Father Miguel (David Anzuelo), a radical Jesuit with a murky past,...
...There are many subtle (and some not-so-subtle) references to the body-horror films of Cronenberg’s father David, but Possessor is very much its own creature....
...As recounted in her 1979 essay “The White Album”, she lived with her devoted husband and young daughter in a 28-room Hollywood mansion, where Janis Joplin or David Hockney might drop by for a party....
...Anna Wiener’s memoir Uncanny Valley (Fourth Estate £16.99/MCD $27, January) promises a coming-of-age story played out in the Klondike of the modern age or, as reviewer Rebecca Solnit claims, “Joan Didion...
...” to Gene Roddenberry’s title sequence for Star Trek (1966), “to boldly go where no man has gone before”, a wide-eyed futurism that rears its head again in Clive James’s account of an evening with Joan Didion...
...It is here, at her best, that she really does live up to Didion’s view of the unsparing writer....
...In “Hagiography”, Wilmers registers a protest against the title of a book by David Plante, Difficult Women, pointing out that the world is run by difficult men....
...David Steinberg, founder and chief executive, Zeta Global A chief executive does not have to be chained to a desk or tethered to an office to keep tabs on a global organisation....
...David Lowery is aware that his new film could have been a laughing stock. The Texan’s fifth film as a director, it is called A Ghost Story, and the ghost in question is as stark as that title....
...See works like this (a campaign for L’Oréal, pictured above) alongside his famous portraits of Picasso, Joan Didion and so many more, until the end of July....
...Carole King’s 1971 album Tapestry encapsulated what Joan Didion called “the morning after the Sixties”....
...same technique with Edie, her biography of the model Edie Sedgwick, weaves together the words of family members, business partners, butlers, lovers and a smattering of famous names: Arthur Miller, Joan Didion...
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