“It occurred to me during the summer of 1988, in California and Atlanta and New Orleans, in the course of watching first the California primary and then the Democratic and  Republican national conventions, that it had not been by accident that the people with whom I had preferred to spend time in high school had, on the whole, hung out in gas stations.” — Joan Didion*

The documentary JOAN DIDION—THE CENTER WILL NOT HOLD, directed by Didion’s nephew, actor Griffin Dunne, will screen at the Hammer this week. Following the screening, Dunne will participate in a Q & A.

 

JOAN DIDION—THE CENTER WILL NOT HOLD, Tuesday, February 6, at 7:30 pm.

BILLY WILDER THEATER, Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Bouleverd, Westwood, Los Angeles.

hammer.ucla.edu/joan-didion-the-center-will-not-hold/

* Joan Didion, “Insider Baseball,” in Political Fictions (New York: Knopf, 2001), 19.

Joan Didion. Photograph by Julian Wasser. Image credit: Danziger Gallery.