Notes to John

"In late 1999, Joan Didion started seeing a psychiatrist, hoping it would help untangle her troubled daughter Quintana’s issues. Her detailed, unguarded notes on her sessions, addressed to her husband, John Gregory Dunne, were found in a portable filing cabinet in her home office after her death in 2021. The decision by Didion’s heirs to publish them raises questions about privacy, but Notes to John offers a valuable key to the genesis of Didion’s memoirs about the devastating deaths of her husband and daughter, and it reaffirms that writing was how she processed everything."