Connie Alvarez

Communications Director

KCRW Staff/Producer

Contact: connie.alvarez@kcrw.org | 310-314-4673

Connie Alvarez is KCRW Communications Director; former Director of Volunteer Services and former producer of Bookworm and Good Food.

 

Connie Alvarez on KCRW

After the deaths of her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and her daughter, Quintana, Joan Didion wrote "Blue Nights," the most personal and poetic book of her career.

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I distinctly remember the first time I was ever embarrassed by my food.

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