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On Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd's new movie "Friendship," which might as well be titled "Are Men Okay?" nytimes.com/2025/05/08/mov…

It's now Monday in Paris, which means this is happening tomorrow!

For Didionheads and newbies alike: I am teaching this very fun little seminar on what Joan Didion teaches us about mythmaking, both personal and collective. It will be live on June 5 at 8pm EST, or you can buy a ticket to get the playback. myfivethings.com/class/alissa-w…

I shall be live from Paris at the American Library in about an hour, and it’s being live streamed (1:30pm EST) — here’s the link! americanlibraryinparis.org/event/wilkinso…

I had a deep, wide-ranging conversation about sentimentality and fixed ideas and parasocial relationships and demagoguery and Joan Didion with the fine folks at Library of America: loa.org/news-and-views…

I am teaching two courses this summer through the Center for Fiction — one in person and one online! I taught them both last fall and we had a wonderful time.

The first is my 4-week course on Joan Didion’s craft, which I am teaching ON ZOOM on Saturdays, July 12 - August 2. More on that: centerforfiction.org/group-workshop…

The other is an 8-week, in-person workshop focusing specifically on the review as creative writing. Everybody gets workshopped, we talk about crafting reviews and the business of writing them, it’s a good time. Mon nights in Brooklyn, June 23 to August 11: centerforfiction.org/group-workshop…

Summer: a great time for my book, according to the staff of Katie Couric Media: katiecouric.com/entertainment/…

Teamed up with our chief TV critic and our genius visuals team to figure out that crazy kid Nathan Fielder, who’s done it again folks nytimes.com/2025/05/26/art…

TODAY IS THE DAY!! The audiobook of “We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine” — read by lil ol’ me — is out. Get it wherever you get your audiobooks, including the independent bookshop-supporting Libro.fm. libro.fm/audiobooks/978…

I've had a few thoughts about NOTES TO JOHN, aka the Joan Didion therapy journals, and what some of the reviews haven't mentioned. So I just stuck them over on Instagram for whoever might be interested: instagram.com/p/DKMU_wcM5nY/…

Wes Anderson appears to have entered his religious era: nytimes.com/2025/05/29/mov…

Just a little reminder that I read my own audiobook (!!!) for WE TELL OURSELVES STORIES and it's finally out now, and, modestly, people keep messaging to tell me how much they're enjoying it. You can get it wherever you get your audiobooks, including here: libro.fm/audiobooks/978…

On Thursday night, 8pm EST, I’m teaching this 90-minute Zoom masterclass on Didion and mythmaking, thanks to the great folks at Five Things I've Learned. I’m honored to be in such august company. Join us, or grab a pass and watch the recording later! myfivethings.com/class/alissa-w…