NP: On Joan D from Vanity Fair piece in 2016. She too in the Plath quote wake.

[Mark Kohut]

There are, I should note, two places in the book where the tone changes,
becomes tender. The first is in "John Wayne: A Love Song." (Didion admirers
like, I suspect, to believe that that "Love" is ironic—it's not; she's
sweet on the Duke, who in his simplicity and stoicism represents to her a
masculine ideal.)