Alissa Wilkinson

While on the West Coast leg of my book tour, I had a wonderful conversation with the fine folks at the California Sun podcast: https://t.co/dF0ExLcPWC

RT @nathanfielder: Okay, here is the official trailer for the new season of The Rehearsal https://t.co/e4NxM5CmSK

RT @Center4Fiction: Join us https://t.co/l39fBbO2b5! https://t.co/dj95a5ZKEF

Hey, New York. Looking for a way to get nerdy about your writing next weekend? There are still spots available in my workshop at the Center for Fiction next weekend. (I recently taught a similar workshop to NYU students and they loved it.) Sign up here! https://t.co/oN41d8Q6ly

I had to: https://t.co/bTFy5YZoeS

A wonderful event with a full house at the NYPL last night, talking about Joan Didion, American politics, Hollywood, and research. (And bourbon, just a little.) https://t.co/LktAijbUXO

I did not expect, for reasons you may understand, to find a new documentary on Thomas Kinkade (the “Painter of Light” who was so ubiquitous for so long) startling and enlightening. I was wrong! https://t.co/vLkODhp4Fq

Today!

NYPL Events @NYPLEvents

Just in time for the debut of our Didion and Dunne Archives, @alissamarie joins us on March 26 to discuss her new book, ‘We Tell Ourselves Stories,’ about Joan Didion’s enduring influence on the American psyche. Register for the livestream: https://t.co/jw16vNHfg0 https://t.co/ND8GWvfZk1

Today's Flannery O'Connor's 100th birthday, so I'm reposting what I wrote about her and Ethan Hawke's movie WILDCAT for the Times last year (gift link): https://t.co/ZjL0K9JvA4

Hamdan Ballal, one of 2 Palestinian directors of the Oscar-winning “No Other Land” (w/ 2 Israeli directors), was beaten bloody near his home by Israeli settlers and detained by the Israeli authorities in the occupied West Bank on Monday, witnesses said. https://t.co/2VscFu7TW7

Another excerpt from WE TELL OURSELVES STORIES -- this one about the Central Park Five, Didion's landmark NYRB essay on the murder, sentimentality in New York, and, I think, the only time the word "Trump" is mentioned in my book. Read it at Inside Hook: https://t.co/2eeGJiw8M0

This is sold out in person (!!) but there’s a livestream!

NYPL Events @NYPLEvents

Just in time for the debut of our Didion and Dunne Archives, @alissamarie joins us on March 26 to discuss her new book, ‘We Tell Ourselves Stories,’ about Joan Didion’s enduring influence on the American psyche. Register for the livestream: https://t.co/jw16vNHfg0 https://t.co/ND8GWvfZk1

I know this is a controversial opinion but I still think this movie’s studio’s policy of not sending invitations to press to screen their films is not a good one

Variety @Variety

“The Alto Knights” crumbled with a terrible $3.2 million in its domestic debut. Robert De Niro’s R-rated mob drama, which cost about $45 million to produce, is shaping up to be one of the year’s biggest flops. https://t.co/trHDyybmAi https://t.co/VxN8XOGXiR

RT @Samantharhill: "Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the…

INFINITE JEST well on the way

Ben Pershing @benpershing

The White House is soliciting corporate sponsors for this year’s Easter Egg Roll, prompting major concerns from ethics experts and shock from former White House officials from both parties. Good reporting from ⁦@betsy_klein⁩: https://t.co/XMPBSpa4Zk

I’ll be at the LA Times Festival of Books at the end of April! Sunday the 27th at 11am. It should be a hoot. https://t.co/QdemCCI0cx

RT @nypl: Just in time for the debut of our Didion and Dunne Archives, @alissamarie joins us on March 26 to discuss her new book, ‘We Tell…