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Joan Didion's Yellow Corvette: interview transcript (2011)

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Joan Didion's Corvette

In September 2011 I went to visit Joan Didion at her apartment on the Upper East Side. I was there to interview her for a British women's magazine about Blue Nights, her recently-published memoir. We spoke (among other things) about grief, the aesthetics of failure, California and (at the request of the editor) about her friendship with the Redgrave family.

Posted on December 29th, 2011

Dotcom All Over My Face (2000)

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The herd of VIPs on the steps leading up to the San Francisco Masonic Auditorium turns away from the cameras to watch the spectacle. A frail-looking man, incongruously-dressed in running shorts and singlet, is weaving among the Versace-clad throng, looking like he must have sprinted all the way up steep Nob Hill.

Posted on December 17th, 2008
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