Joan Didion: Blue Nights

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Michael Silverblatt

Produced by:

Connie Alvarez

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After the deaths of husband, John Gregory Dunne, and her daughter, Quintana, Joan Didion wrote Blue Nights (Knopf), the most personal and poetic book of her impressive career. We talk about aging, death and the act of complete surrender that this devastating book required.

Read an excerpt from Blue Nights.

Banner image: Larry Hirshowitz

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Joan Didion: author

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