the book critic Michiko Kakutani declared in
The New York Times in 1979. Born in Sacramento to a family that proudly traced its heritage to 19th century settlers, Didion has become inseparable from California and the West. Plenty of readers continue to take Kakutani’s claim at face value, even though Didion has resided in New York City for decades. Didion’s novels and nonfiction, and her chic brand of California cool, are still lauded as an alternative to the masculine myth of the frontier.
Didion, who is 86, hasn’t published a book of new work in nearly a decade. Her latest,
The film of Hannah’s much-loved novel
The Nightingale (published in 43 languages), starring Dakota Fanning and Elle Fanning, is slated for December 2021, and Netflix is releasing a 10-part series based on
Firefly Lane in early February 2021.
The Great Alone has also been optioned for the screen.
Kristin’s work touches millions of people.
Firefly Lane became a runaway bestseller in 2009, a touchstone novel that brought women together, and
The Nightingale, in 2015, was voted a best book of the year by Amazon, Buzzfeed, iTunes,
Library Journal,
Wall Street Journal and
The Week. Additionally, the novel won the coveted Goodreads and People’s Choice Awards. The audiobook of
Megan Pillow is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop in fiction and holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Kentucky. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in, among other places, Electric Literature, SmokeLong Quarterly, Hobart, The Believer, Brevity, and Gay Magazine. Megan has also had stories featured on the Wigleaf Top 50, an essay honored as
The Malahat Review,
Fourth Genre, and elsewhere. He is the author of four novels published by Arsenal Pulp Press, which have been nominated for the Lambda Literary Award, the Ferro-Grumley Award, and the ReLit Award. Daniel s memoir-in-essays A VOCABULARY FOR APOSTATES is forthcoming from Penguin Canada in spring 2023. Daniel is represented by Akin Akinwumi at Willenfield Literary Agency. Website: danielallencox.net Twitter: @danielallencox
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Shannon Sanders is a Black writer near Washington, DC, and a 2020 winner of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Her fiction appears in One Story, Electric Literature, Joyland, Strange Horizons, Hobart, SLICE, and elsewhere. Find her at ShannonSandersWrites.com and on Twitter at @shanderswrites.