Books in Review: Joan Didion's 'The Year of Magical Thinking' and 'The White Album'

Exploring grief, mourning and loss with New Journalism's femme fatale

CALIFORNIA COOL: Didion sitting in a 1970s-era Corvette Stingray, cigarette in hand. / Photo: Kickstarter

On December 30, 2003, author Joan Didion and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, had just returned to their New York City apartment following a visit to see their daughter, Quintana, who was lying unconscious in the intensive care unit of Beth Israel Me…