Of Interest

In November, a collection of Joan Didion's possessions was auctioned at Stair Galleries. The auction was the subject of a report on NPR, "Writer Joan Didion's possessions sell for eye-popping prices at auction," and an article in The New Yorker, "Joan Didion's Priceless Sunglasses." The sunglasses sold for $27,000. All together, the auction netted about $2 million.

Last week, New York Magazine's Curbed reported that Didion's eleven-room apartment on the Upper East Side has not yet found a buyer: "No One Wants Joan Didion's Apartment." The apartment went on the market in late January with an asking price of $7.5 million. As Curbed and the New York Post before it reported, the price was recently reduced by a million dollars.