Air-Conditioned Unease
Andrew O’Hagan: Joan Didion on the Couch, 26 June 2025
The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
by Griffin Dunne.
Grove, 385 pp., £10.99, June 2024,978 1 80471 057 9 Show More
by Griffin Dunne.
Grove, 385 pp., £10.99, June 2024,
The Uptown Local: Joy, Death and Joan Didion
by Cory Leadbeater.
Fleet, 213 pp., £12.99, June 2024,978 0 349 12717 0 Show More
by Cory Leadbeater.
Fleet, 213 pp., £12.99, June 2024,
“... at the camera as if suspicious at being seen, while Didion, next to her husband, John Gregory Dunne, is balanced between a whisky glass and a lit cigarette, looking at Quintana. The difficulties are already inscribed in the dry air between them.Maybe we only begin to understand our families when we recognise the stories we can’t bear to tell about ... ”