A Taste of Paradis: Joan Didion, in Conversation with Mark Marvel

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A Taste of Paradis: Joan Didion, in Conversation with Mark Marvel
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For Hennessy Paradis, we’re recirculating our most memorable in-conversations, like this September 1996 chat between the late, great Joan Didion and Mark Marvel.

Over its 258-year history, Hennessy has pioneered and elevated the art of cognac, a spirit fit for kings and queens.hasn’t been around quite as long – just 54 years – but we like to think we, too, have curated conversations and photography that aspire to a similar level of elegance and sophistication.marque, we poured through the Interview archives to recirculate conversations with personalities, entertainers, and icons who personify the brand’s spirit of refinement, grandeur, and artistry.

‘s pristine, oft-photographed Upper East Side apartment for a conversation on conflict reporting, slow writing, and the advantages of being a “nag.”is as elegant and angular as her prose. Inviting me into the apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side that she shares with her husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, and their daughter, Quintana, Didion’s welcome is at once warm and genuine.

MM: Are you a crisis junkie? Does it give you an adrenaline rush to imagine these crisis situations your characters are part of?people cross the street talking to each other. They’re sometimes very restful to read, but I don’t know how anybody writes them.JD: No, probably not. [laughs] I expect something to happen when they’re crossing theMM: By an unmarked car. [both laugh]. You’ve written extensively about Cuba and El Salvador.

JD: I have been attracted to certain places where conspiracy is a constant, where it’s the way people operate. In Caribbean politics, for example. And by Caribbean I mean all the countries that border on the Caribbean. I’ve never written about Cuba per se, just about the Cuban community in Miami. I got interested in Miami in the ’60s, after the Kennedy assassination. My husband and I were just about to get married and move to California.

the Gulf. For this book, my interest in El Salvador came from the fact that the United States was down there playing some kind of role nobody seemed to understand. I remember reading the paper one morning, and this staggering stuff was coming out of El Salvador. My husband and I had no idea what the United States was doing there.

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