Joan Didion is a well-covered subject, but Alissa Wilkinson’s second book, “We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine,” approaches Didion’s work with a fresh perspective. Wilkinson tackles two topics she’s extremely familiar with: cultural evolution and the figures involved in it.  Wilkinson said the book is unique from other Didion biographies […]

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Alissa Wilkinson is a film critic at the New York Times and recently announced her second book which is about Joan Didion, the evolution of Hollywood culture and its relationship to American politics.  Joan Didion is a well-covered subject, but Wilkinson’s book, “We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine,” approaches Didion’s […]

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