Joan Didion in Podcasts

And yet, when they were discovered in a small file near Didion's desk and published as notes to John, we carry the book in the painted porch, after the death of all three figures, they make for profoundly moving reading, detailing in Didion's clear and refined writing style what it is like to watch as your child seems bent on self-destruction.

Helpless to save her daughter, but desperate to do whatever she could, Didion was trying to process an overwhelming and deeply painful situation.

And she actually has an ongoing reciprocal correspondence with Joan Didion.