Joan Didion Audio & Video

First published in 1979, The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s....

A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It As It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation....

Universally acclaimed from the time it was first published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has been admired for decades as a stylistic masterpiece....

An hour conversation with author and screenwriter Joan Didion in which she discusses her book "The Year of Magical Thinking"…

Joan Didion dwells on mortality throughout her most recent memoir, Blue Nights, in which she tries to cope with, or at least understand, the loss of her daughter, Quintana Roo.

Ms. Didion talked about her career from 1963 to 1996 and about the body of work she produced during that period, including 5 works of fiction and 5 works of non-fiction.

Join us for a public conversation with author Joan Didion regarding her latest work, Political Fictions...

In this intensely personal, deeply moving account—part memoir, part journalism—the author of Slouching Towards Bethlehem exposes the layers and facets of her life over a year of dramatic and unexpected events.

From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter....

Inez Victor knows that the major casualty of the political life is memory. But the people around Inez have made careers out of losing track....