Would the legendary American writer have welcomed the publication of her therapy notes? It seems unlikely<\/p>\n
Joan Didion entered the fray on the publication of Ernest Hemingway\u2019s unfinished final manuscript in an essay titled Last Words<\/a> in 1998: \u201cYou think something is in shape to be published or you don\u2019t, and\u00a0Hemingway didn\u2019t,\u201d she wrote. You believe a writer\u2019s unpublished work is fair game after their death or you don\u2019t, and Didion \u2013 it would seem \u2013 didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n Debate about the ethics of posthumous publication has been ignited once more, this time with Didion at its centre. After the writer\u2019s death in 2021, about 150 pages were found in a file next to her desk. These were meticulous accounts of sessions with her psychiatrist, from 1999 to 2003, focused mainly on her adopted daughter Quintana, who was spiralling into alcoholism. Addressed to her husband, screenwriter John Gregory Dunne<\/a>, this journal has been published under the title Notes to John<\/a>. \u201cNo restrictions were put on access,\u201d we are told in a brief, anonymous introduction, presumably the ghostly hand of her literary estate.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Would the legendary American writer have welcomed the publication of her therapy notes? It seems unlikely Joan Didion entered the fray on the publication of Ernest Hemingway\u2019s unfinished final manuscript in an essay titled Last Words in 1998: \u201cYou think something is in shape to be published or you don\u2019t, and\u00a0Hemingway didn\u2019t,\u201d she wrote. You … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}