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,978 1 80471 057 9 Show More
by Griffin Dunne.
Grove, 385 pp., £10.99, June,
The Uptown Local: Joy, Death and Joan Didion
by Cory Leadbeater.
Fleet, 213 pp., £12.99, June,978 0 349 12717 0 Show More
by Cory Leadbeater.
Fleet, 213 pp., £12.99, June,
“... to have a personal assistant who needs validation and saving even more than you need it yourself. Cory Leadbeater was a Columbia student encouraged by James Fenton to come and work with Didion when she needed a hand. It was supposed to last for six months but went on for nine years. She in fact needed relatively little, but ... ”
