LK Special: Alissa Wilkinson, "We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine"

Linoleum Knife

Alonso Duralde

Gay, Lgbt, Reviews, Film, Entertainment, Movies, Tv & Film, Criticism, Movie

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Dave and Alonso welcome New York Times film critic Alissa Wilkinson to discuss her fascinating new book about author Joan Didion, her encounters with Hollywood, and her understanding of how show-business became the dominant language of the 20th century and beyond.

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0:00.0	Linolium Knife, a podcast of the cinema.
0:03.9	Welcome to a special episode.
0:05.4	I'm Alonzo Duraldi.
0:06.7	I'm Dave White.
0:07.5	And joining us today is the author of the new book, Out Right Now.
0:12.1	We Tell Ourselves Stories, Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine.
0:16.7	She is a film critic at the New York Times.
0:23.9	You've seen her work at Vox and elsewhere.
0:28.2	Joining us today, the great Alyssa Wilkinson. Welcome to the show.
0:35.5	Thank you. Thanks for having me. It's a treat. I had the chance to meet you before the pandemic.
0:39.2	Yes. We did a panel together at a film festival in Virginia.
0:39.9	We did.
0:42.2	What a beautiful weekend that was, too.
0:46.3	I just mainly remember we were like in Charlottesville and the weather was absolutely perfect.
0:47.1	Yeah.
0:47.5	And it seems like it was sometime in the Pleistocene.
0:50.1	Right.
0:51.3	That's right.
0:52.2	Yep.
0:52.8	A different time.
0:54.1	Totally. So Dave White is a giant Joan Didion fan, and we are both giant Alyssa Wilkinson fan. So we had to have you on to talk about this new book. For people who are just approaching it, what's the elevator pitch?
1:12.2	What is this book about?
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