{"product_id":"conversations-with-joan-didion-hardcover","title":"Conversations with Joan Didion - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eScott F. Parker\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoan Didion (b. 1934) is an American icon. Her essays, particularly those in \u003cem\u003eSlouching Towards Bethlehem\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe White Album\u003c\/em\u003e, have resonated in American culture to a degree unmatched over the past half century. Two generations of writers have taken her as the measure of what it means to write personal essays. No one writes about California, the sixties, media narratives, cultural mythology, or migraines without taking Didion into account. She has also written five novels; several screenplays with her husband, John Gregory Dunne; and three late-in-life memoirs, including \u003cem\u003eThe Year of Magical Thinking\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBlue Nights\u003c\/em\u003e, which have brought her a new wave of renown.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eConversations with Joan Didion\u003c\/em\u003e features seventeen interviews with the author spanning decades, continents, and genres. Didion reflects on her childhood in Sacramento; her time at Berkeley (both as a student and later as a visiting professor), New York, and Hollywood; her marriage to Dunne; and of course her writing. Didion describes her methods of writing, the ways in which the various genres she has worked in inform one another, and the concerns that have motivated her to write.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eScott F. Parker\u003c\/b\u003e is author of \u003ci\u003eBeing on the Oregon Coast: An Essay on Nature, Solitude, the Creation of Value, and the Art of Human Flourishing\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Way Home: Oregon Essays\u003c\/i\u003e as well as editor of \u003ci\u003eConversations with Ken Kesey\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003epublished by University Press of Mississippi. He teaches writing at Montana State University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 186\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 15, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42716826140735,"sku":"9781496815514","price":237.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/80c9b38037fa1bdca7ece03e56c03850_a0585e30-b722-42a0-9939-0912a9c5fd2c.webp?v=1765076319","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/conversations-with-joan-didion-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}