Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool
Right Answers Mostly
Claire Donald & Tess Bellomo
4.6 • 764 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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| 0:24.5 | Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com slash setup. Welcome back to Write Answers Mostly, a podcast on what you didn't learn in history class but you really wanted to. |
| 1:01.8 | My name's Claire Donald. |
| 1:02.9 | And my name is Tess Belomo. |
| 1:04.5 | And welcome to what our podcast is really all about, Woman's History Month. |
| 1:09.4 | We have made it. |
| 1:10.2 | We are transitioning. We're doing a very |
| 1:12.0 | intense transition. Transitioning out of Kennedy's month has been tough. But like I do feel like |
| 1:17.2 | we're craving a little bit of softness, a little feminine energy. Yeah. And this is a really nice way |
| 1:21.9 | to start the month. So we have some really amazing women to talk about this month and we are kicking |
| 1:26.9 | it off with none other |
| 1:28.1 | than Joan Didian herself. I'm so excited because I know literally nothing about her life. |
| 1:34.0 | A place that we always love to start off is starting from scratch. So, okay, nothing. |
| 1:38.8 | I'm like, am I a fool? Because I truly, like, I think, when I think of Joan Diddy, I think of you. |
| 1:44.1 | Wow. Because, like, you have |
| 1:45.4 | her books. If you're watching on YouTube, look at Claire's beautiful collection. Yeah, we really judged up the studio today. We did. We're going to continue doing that. So please send us some stuff. Yes. Send us some artwork. I think some people are in, it's in the works. Well, we have one of our Ramies artwork right here because one of our Ramies drew me a hummingbird if you're new here. |
| 2:04.2 | There was a hummingbird drew me a hummingbird. If you're new here, there was a hummingbird that made a nest outside of my window this past summer and it became my whole personality. I mean, it was special and hummingbirds are very like representative of good things. They were and you know what? I was going through something. Okay. You were like, I need this hummingbird more than you know. No, like, actually, and I decided to name her Joan Didion. So Joan Didian is like her third co-host, and one of our Rammies drew her. So she's up in the studio. Gorgeous. But yeah, I really, I couldn't even tell you some effect, because I'm just like, who is this woman? I know she's chic. Talk about the ultimate California cool girl. Is she like Jenny Mitchell adjacent? |
| 2:37.0 | Well, she's not... |
| 2:38.0 | She was... like, who is this woman? I know she's chic. Talk about the ultimate California cool girl. |
| 2:34.9 | Is she like Jenny Mitchell adjacent? Well, she's not, she wasn't California at the same time as her. Okay, because that's like a connotation I have and I'm like, I don't know if that's accurate. Well, both writers, both women in L.A. at the time. We love that. |
| 2:48.4 | Yeah, we do. |
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