By Alissa Wilkinson This article is an adapted excerpt from “We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine,” by Alissa Wilkinson for Liveright Publishing Corporation.

She said that she was once at romance novelist Jackie Collins' house playing billiards when her sister, "Dynasty" actress Joan Collins, jokingly told her two things to never do after turning 40.

By Joanne Kaufman Joan Dye Gussow, a nutritionist and educator who was often referred to as the matriarch of the “eat locally, think globally” food movement, died on Friday at her home in ...

River Callaway/Billboard via Getty Golden Bachelorette stars Joan Vassos and Chock Chapple aren’t in a rush to make it down the aisle. The couple — who got engaged in the finale of the ABC ...

Fully redeemable pool and beach days in Dubai. Credit: 25hours Hotel One Central. There’s a fully redeemable at the swimming pool in the 25hours Hotel One Central every day. You need to spend a ...

If Joan Didion had an overarching preoccupation as a journalist and novelist, it was to find interstices where truth and myth blend into each other. In many of the essays that were collected in ...

Rick Harrison is lucky in love, despite three previous attempts at marriage. The "Pawn Stars" boss proposed to fiancée Angie Polushkin in March after dating for more than a year. Soon after their ...

Rick Harrison is opening up about grief more than a year after his son's death. In an interview with Graham Bensinger released Wednesday, the "Pawn Stars" creator, 59, reflected on the loss of his ...

Joan Didion haunts Los Angeles ... or have brunch at the pool bar. The Brentwood of Didion’s time, frankly, no longer exists, but she paints a pretty picture of it. “One summer when we ...

Each week we pay tribute to the loved ones remembered in our area with a funeral notice and online tribute page. To read the ...