Q&A and book talk with Griffin Dunne moderated by film critic and writer Alissa Wilkinson

Monday, Nov. 10 2025, 6:00

• Griffin Dunne, beloved for his starring roles in iconic films like An American Werewolf in London and Martin Scorsese's After Hours, continues to charm audiences and critics alike almost 30 years later. Most recently, Griffin can be seen in Darren Aronofsky's Caught Stealing and series like HBO’s The Girls on the Bus and Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building. Before that he was in the hit NBC series This is Us, opposite Mandy Moore and Sterling K. Brown. Other credits include the Oscar-winning Dallas Buyers Club, as well as a starring role in Joey Soloway’s provocative Amazon Studios dramedy I Love Dick opposite Kevin Bacon and Kathryn Hahn. Griffin is also an accomplished filmmaker having directed such films as Addicted to Love with Meg Ryan, Practical Magic with Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, and the critically acclaimed Netflix documentary The Center Will Not Hold about his aunt Joan Didion. His family memoir The Friday Afternoon Club was released in bookstores in June of 2024.
• Alissa Wilkinson is a movie critic at the New York Times. Her book We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine, a cultural history of American myth-making in Hollywood through the life and work of Joan Didion, was published by Liveright on March 11, 2025. We Tell Ourselves Stories is a fresh perspective on Didion’s career as a novelist, critic, and screenwriter deeply embroiled in the grit and glamour of Hollywood. Wilkinson charts how Didion became intimately acquainted with power players of the Los Angeles elite, arriving in the twilight of the old studio system in time to see lines between the industry and public life blur. The book also dissects the motifs and machinations that informed Didion’s writing—and how her writing, ultimately, demonstrated Hollywood’s addictive grasp on American identity.

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