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Books by Joan Didion mentioned on podcasts
Joan Didion's works of essay and memoir are discussed by various podcast hosts and guests in relation to grief, journalism, and cultural history. On The Daily Stoic, the host and Tom Junod discussed Blue Nights, expressing mixed feelings about its level of honesty during grief. On Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, the speakers referenced the essay collection Slouching Towards Bethlehem alongside the essay Goodbye to All That. The White Album came up when the host of The Daily Stoic discussed a passage featuring Jim Morrison, and a guest on The Joe Rogan Experience referenced it in relation to the Manson murders. On Stuff They Don't Want You To Know, a guest quoted from the book Miami to illustrate geopolitical residue, and on the Lex Fridman Podcast, Eugenia Kuyda mentioned reading The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights while coping with the loss of her loved ones.
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The White Album
Discussed“And I mean, it reminds me of, in kind of a tangential way, but you know the passage in Didion's The White Album where she’s with, uh, Jim Morrison? Yeah, you know, and you know how she writes about it. It’s, she goes to the recording session, they’re waiting for Jim Morrison, he shows up, he doesn’t talk to anybody,”
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Blue Nights
Discussed“I thought I thought Blue Nights was I like Blue Nights.”
Speaker The Daily Stoic What It Means To Be A Good Man Today With Tom Junod 2026-09-06 Listen at 9:38Where to get it
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Miami
Discussed“There's this brilliant um Joan Didion quote She Wrote This Book Miami about the basically the the cia's attempts to successful attempts to you know ferment the anti-castro invasionary forces in Miami and uh she has this line decisions taken in Washington from time to time leave a certain residue on the board and that phrase a certain residue on”
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Run River
Discussed“and i was reading this you know the the book the year of magical thinking by joan didion about her losing and blue knights about her losing her husband her daughter and the way to cope for her was to write those books”
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Slouching Toward Bethlehem
Discussed“Um, Slouching Towards Bethlehem! And of course, did you read Goodbye to All That when you left New York? I think people sent it to you!”
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