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Should Joan Didion’s therapy notes to her husband about their daughter have been published?

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par Gemma Nisbet, Lecturer in Professional Writing and Publishing, Curtin University

Joan Didion died, aged 87, in 2021. When a new volume of her diaries was announced, anticipation was high: her personal nonfiction is the foundation of her formidable literary legacy. But as details emerged, readers began to question the ethics of its publication.

Billed as offering “astonishingly intimate” insights, Notes to John recounts conversations with Didion’s psychiatrist between December 1999…

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