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Blue Nights
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Come to Dinner book
cooking memoirs
Elissa Altman
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female literary friendships
food memoirs
friendship memoirs
JAMES BEARD AWARD-WINNING WRITER
Joan Didion biography
Joan Didion memoir
Let Me Tell You What I Mean
literary friendship memoir
literary memoirs
literary nonfiction
memoir about writers
memoirs by women writers
The Year of Magical Thinking
Product details
- ISBN 9798998722387
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 24 Mar 2026
- Publisher: Empress Editions
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A rare, revelatory portrait of Joan Didion -- told not through her essays or fame, but through fifty years of unshakable friendship... and food! When journalist and novelist Sara Davidson met Joan Didion in the 1970s, neither could have predicted the decades of dinners, deep conversations, and quiet rituals that would follow. In Come to Dinner, Davidson opens the door to their private world, offering an intimate memoir of literary sisterhood -- one filled with tenderness, wit, and the kind of wisdom exchanged only across time and trust. From Malibu beach walks to Manhattan suppers, shared grief to unguarded hilarity, Davidson captures the Joan few ever saw: fiercely loyal, disarmingly funny, and unwavering in her support of other women writers. What emerges is not a biography, but a deeply human portrait of Joan as a friend, mentor, and kindred spirit. For fans of The Year of Magical Thinking, Sontag: Her Life and Work, and Let Me Tell You What I Mean, this is a story not just of Didion's legacy, but of female friendship told through a rich menu of radical love, creativity, and survival.
