Joan Didion kept the treatment sessions notes.
In 46 posts dating back to December 1999, she discussed alcohol addiction, depression, anxiety and the complex relationship with her daughter, Quetana Rown. Added to her husband, John Gregory DonThese unprecedented observations were found in a file cabinet next to Didion’s office in her apartment in Manhattan and will be published later this year in “notes to John”-the first release after his death to the American writer.
In 1999, the family of Sacramento’s citizen was “a few years ago,” according to a letter she wrote to a friend. A peek on Didion’s psyche was offered, personal accounts dealt with the topics that she later explored in early 2000 writings, including “Where I was”, “The Year of Magic Thinking” and “Blue Nights”. Almost every insertion will be published almost completely, with the exception of corrected typographical errors and additives. The original manuscripts will be provided at the New York Public Library on March 26 as part of the Dideon and without joint archives.
She was famous for the history of the counter -culture in the 1960s and 1970s with articles such as “sagging towards Bethlehem” and “White album”, Didion died in writing about her smart notes. The writer, who has been involved in both imagination and stories, is one of the pioneers of the new press. She suffered from Parkinson’s disease and He died in 2021 At the age of 87.
The book “Notes to John” will be published in hardcover and EBook by Knopf on April 22. Penguin Random House will release the auditory kitchen.
“Everything we offer in Joan Didion is immediately clear in these pages – accuracy, bad intelligence, fixed visions, and the massacre interrogation of its motives. However, this is also Joan Didion because we have not seen it before – open, weak, wrestling with raw passion,, “Jordan Pavilin-the CEO of the publisher and the president, said in a press statement. “John’s notes” is an extraordinary intimate record of a painful and courageous journey in one of the greatest book of our time. ”
