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‘The Friday Afternoon Club’ Review: Growing Up Dunne
The Wall Street Journal· 6 hours agoThe actor Griffin Dunne grew up amid storytelling royalty: his father, Dominick; his uncle, John Gregory Dunne; and his aunt, Joan Didion.
The week's bestselling books, June 23
LA Times via AOL· 1 day agoThe Artist's Way by Julia Cameron (TarcherPerigee: $19) 4. Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 5. World Travel by...
How Dominick Dunne Invented the Way We Read About the Rich
Town & Country via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThe storytellers in his family included his uncle, the journalist John Gregory Dunne, and his aunt,...
Griffin Dunne on His Fascinating, Complicated Family, His ‘Hilarious’ Friendship With Carrie Fisher...
Variety via AOL· 3 days agoGriffin Dunne’s family has done so many larger-than-life, unbelievable things that when the...
Your Summer Reading Guide
New York Times· 5 days agoIn December, I dropped out of a reading challenge I’d participated in for two years. The challenge was exactly what I needed in 2021: I had read two...
Purcell: Government largesse for writers
The Longview News-Journal· 11 hours agoDuring the Great Depression, the government established the Works Progress Administration. As part of the Federal Writers’ Project, nearly 7,000 writers...
Diane Oliver’s Fiction From Both Sides of the Color Line
The Nation· 4 days agoHow do you make art about racism? Neighbors, then, is that troublesome artifact: an artist’s...
Griffin Dunne recalls Hollywood adventures
The Columbian· 6 days agoSinatra, to Sean Connery saving him from drowning in a pool (see, neglect!), to acting class with Linda Lovelace, and smoking weed with Dennis Hopper....
27 Best Memoirs: Unforgettable Stories That Inspire
Biography via Yahoo News· 3 days agoOur list of the best memoirs includes first-person insight into someone else’s life, with some of the best by Michelle Obama, Anthony Bourdain, and more.
‘The Bikeriders’ Review: Easy Riders, Easy Watching
Esquire· 1 day agoFor a film about the rough and tumble lives of motorcyclists, perhaps it was inevitable that The Bikeriders had a circuitous route to our cinema screens....
