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Should Joan Didion’s therapy notes to her husband about their daughter have been published?

Joan Didion died, aged 87, in 2021. When a new volume of her diaries was announced, anticipation was high: her personal nonfiction is the foundation of her formidable literary legacy. But as details emerged, readers began to question the ethics of its publication.

The Conversation · May 12, 2025

Notes to John by Joan Didion: Dispatches from the therapist’s chair are a guilty pleasure

Joan Didion, who died in 2021, never intended Notes to John to be published. They are, as the title intimates, notes to her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and they are about meetings with her psychiatrist, Dr Roger MacKinnon, over the course of a little more than a year, beginning in…

Evening Standard · May 4, 2025

My friend Joan Didion wouldn’t have wanted her therapy notes to be published

Letter: Responding to an editorial about the publication of Notes to John, Clare Reihill writes that the late American writer never left anything to chance

The Guardian - UK · May 2, 2025

The Friday Afternoon Club by Griffin Dunne review – a Hollywood insider with an outsider’s eye

The actor’s star-studded memoir-cum-account of his sister’s murder could have been a clunky read, but his self-awareness, honesty and humour make the nephew of Joan Didion and son of Dominick Dunne an engaging narrator

The Guardian - UK · Jun 16, 2024

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Presents for those born between May 21 and June 20

Evening Standard · May 20, 2024

As it happened: Long-range break battle for the win in Fano on stage 12

Julian Alaphilippe takes maiden Giro d'Italia stage win after breathless fight in the hills

Cycling News · May 16, 2024

Best memoirs of all time

Delve into fascinating, gut-wrenching and healing snippets of life

Evening Standard · Apr 12, 2024