Notes to John by Joan Didion #joyce Coming from a kitchen maximalist

Coming from a kitchen maximalist who knows how to dazzle when it comes to putting dinner on the table and to feeding loved ones with generosity and abundance

George V's Curry to Queen Mary's birthday cake

but they've never met

impressions past and present

Murray Smith reflects on the original film 25 years after its release

Notes to John by Joan Didion #joyce Coming from a kitchen maximalistA previously unpublished work from one of America's most iconic writers, Joan Didion. In November 1999, Joan Didion began seeing a psychiatrist because, as she wrote to a friend, her family had had "a rough few years." She described the sessions in a journal she created for her husband, John Gregory Dunne. For several months, Didion recorded conversations with the psychiatrist in meticulous detail. The initial sessions focused on alcoholism, adoption,