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We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order To Live
''We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction'' is a 2006 collection of nonfiction by Joan Didion. It was released in the Everyman's Library, a series of reprinted classic literature, as one of the titles chosen to mark the series' 100th anniversary. The title is taken from the opening line of Didion's essay "The White Album" in the book of the same name. ''We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live'' includes the full content of her first seven volumes of nonfiction. The contents range in style, including journalism, memoir, and cultural and political commentary. Critics noted that Didion's distinct literary voice, highlighted by John Leonard's introduction, is apparent throughout the collection. The ''Chicago Tribune'' review stated "even the slightest f her worktends to have at least a moment when her prose somehow modulates ... transfigures ... kicks the whole thing up a level."McLemee, ScottBook review ''Chicago Tribune''. Published November 30, 2006. Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Didion
Joan Didion (; December 5, 1934 – December 23, 2021) was an American writer. Along with Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson and Gay Talese, she is considered one of the pioneers of New Journalism. Didion's career began in the 1950s after she won an essay contest sponsored by ''Vogue'' magazine. Her writing during the 1960s through the late 1970s engaged audiences in the realities of the counterculture of the 1960s, the Hollywood lifestyle and California culture and history. Didion's political writing in the 1980s and 1990s often concentrated on the subtext of political and social rhetoric. In 1991, she wrote the earliest mainstream media article to suggest the Central Park Five had been wrongfully convicted. In 2005, Didion won the National Book Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for ''The Year of Magical Thinking'', a memoir of the year following the death of her husband, writer John Gregory Dunne. She late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Leonard (critic)
John Leonard (February 25, 1939 – November 5, 2008) was an American literary, television, film, and cultural critic. For ''Life'' and ''The New York Times'' he wrote under the pen name of Cyclops. Biography John Leonard grew up in Washington, D.C., Jackson Heights, Queens, and Long Beach, California, where he graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School. Raised by a single mother, Ruth Smith, he made his way to Harvard University, where he immersed himself in the college newspaper, ''The Harvard Crimson'', only to drop out in the spring of his second year. He then attended the University of California at Berkeley. A political leftist, Leonard had an unlikely early patron in conservative leader William F. Buckley, who gave him his first job in journalism at ''National Review'' magazine in 1959. There, he worked alongside such young talents as Joan Didion, Garry Wills, Renata Adler and Arlene Croce. Leonard went on to be Drama and Literature Director for Pacifica Radio flagship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Non-fiction Books
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Where I Was From
''Where I Was From'' is a 2003 collection of essays by Joan Didion. It concerns the history and culture of California, where Didion was born and spent much of her life. The collection combines aspects of historical writing, journalism, and memoir to present a history of California as well as Didion's own experiences in that state. Synopsis The book attempts to understand the differences between California's factual history and its perceived reputation. According to Didion, "This book represents an exploration into my own confusions about the place and the way in which I grew up... misapprehensions and misunderstandings so much a part of who I became that I can still to this day confront them only obliquely." ''Where I Was From'' is also in parts a retrospective on Didion's work, examining how these "confusions" affected books such as '' Run, River''. Critical reception Diane Johnson in ''The New York Review of Books'' summarizes the apparent hypocrisies of California cultur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political Fictions
''Political Fictions'' is a 2001 book of essays by Joan Didion on the American political process. In it, Didion discusses the presidency of Ronald Reagan, the 1988, 1992 and 2000 presidential elections, the Republican takeover of Congress in the 1994 elections, the impeachment of Bill Clinton, as well as the works of journalists Bob Woodward and Michael Isikoff. The collection includes two of the three essays previously published in the "Washington" section of Didion's 1992 essay collection '' After Henry''. In 2002, ''Political Fictions'' won the George Polk Book Award. Content President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky, the intern's association with Linda Tripp, and their entanglement with Special Prosecutor Kenneth Starr provides the book's central material. Didion evolves this into a close dissection of how the press casts and shapes the news, and helps promote a scandal. It is, as Didion writes, a story of "that handful of insiders who invent, year in and year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
After Henry (book)
''After Henry'' is a 1992 in literature, 1992 book of essays by Joan Didion. All but two essays of this book are reprinted in ''We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction'' (2006). "Insider Baseball" and "Shooters, Inc." are not included (though they are included in the ''Political Fictions'' section.) Prologue "After Henry" A personal memorial for Henry Robbins, who was Didion's friend and editor from 1966 until he died in 1979. The essays collected in this book were written after Henry's death. Washington Two of the three essays from the "Washington" section of the book were republished in 2001 as part of Didion's book ''Political Fictions''. "In the Realm of the Fisher King" Analyzes Ronald Reagan's style of government, mostly through the character of Nancy Reagan, his wife and other handlers. Didion says that the Reagans maintained, in their years in Sacramento and Washington D.C., Washington, the sheltered, disconnected lifestyle of "actors on loca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miami (book)
''Miami'' is a 1987 book of social and political analysis by Joan Didion. Didion begins, "Havana vanities come to dust in Miami." The book is an extended report on the generation of Cubans who landed in exile in Miami following the overthrow of dictator Fulgencio Batista January 1, 1959 and the way in which that community has connected to America and American politics. ''Granta'' writes, "Miami may be the sunniest place in America, but this is Didion's darkest book." Summary Joan Didion describes life in Miami for Cuban exiles. She talks about their position in the history behind major events like the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Reagan Doctrine and Watergate. To Didion, Miami is more than just a city in Florida Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and to ..., rather it is a city ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salvador (book)
''Salvador'' is a 1983 book-length essay by Joan Didion on American involvement in El Salvador. Didion wrote the book after visiting the country. Didion spent two weeks in El Salvador and has referred to the experience as "terrifying". She was in the country during the 1982 El Salvador earthquake. The ''New York Review of Books New is an adjective referring to something recently made, discovered, or created. New or NEW may refer to: Music * New, singer of K-pop group The Boyz Albums and EPs * ''New'' (album), by Paul McCartney, 2013 * ''New'' (EP), by Regurgitator, ...'' published two "extended articles" by Didion about her visit to El Salvador which were later combined to form ''Salvador''. References External links * 1983 non-fiction books Books by Joan Didion 1983 essays Chatto & Windus books Simon & Schuster books Essays about politics Works about El Salvador Salvadoran Civil War Books about foreign relations of the United States {{ElSalvador-stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
''Slouching Towards Bethlehem'' is a 1968 collection of essays by Joan Didion that mainly describes her experiences in California during the 1960s. It takes its title from the poem " The Second Coming" by W. B. Yeats. The contents of this book are reprinted in Didion's '' We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction'' (2006). Collection's origins According to Nathan Heller in ''The New Yorker'', the book came about this way: "In the spring of 1967, Joan Didion as ...engaged to write a regular column for the ''Saturday Evening Post''. ..At some point, an editor suggested that she had the makings of a collection, so she stacked her columns with past articles she liked (a report from Hawaii, the best of some self-help columns she'd churned out while a junior editor at ''Vogue''), set them in a canny order with a three-paragraph introduction, and sent them off. This was ''Slouching Towards Bethlehem''." Title essay The title essay describes Didion's impre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago Tribune
The ''Chicago Tribune'' is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tribune Publishing. Founded in 1847, and formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" (a slogan for which WGN radio and television are named), it remains the most-read daily newspaper in the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region. It had the sixth-highest circulation for American newspapers in 2017. In the 1850s, under Joseph Medill, the ''Chicago Tribune'' became closely associated with the Illinois politician Abraham Lincoln, and the Republican Party's progressive wing. In the 20th century under Medill's grandson, Robert R. McCormick, it achieved a reputation as a crusading paper with a decidedly more American-conservative anti-New Deal outlook, and its writing reached other markets through family and corporate relationships at the ''New York Daily News'' and the ''Washington Times-Herald.'' The 1960s saw its corporate parent owner, Tribune Company, rea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Everyman's Library
Everyman's Library is a series of reprints of classic literature, primarily from the Western canon. It is currently published in hardback by Random House. It was originally an imprint of J. M. Dent (itself later a division of Weidenfeld & Nicolson and presently an imprint of Orion Books), who continue to publish Everyman Paperbacks. History Everyman's Library was conceived in 1905 by London publisher Joseph Malaby Dent, whose goal was to create a 1,000-volume library of world literature that was affordable for, and that appealed to, every kind of person, from students to the working classes to the cultural elite. Dent followed the design principles and to a certain extent the style established by William Morris in his Kelmscott Press. For this Dent asked the Monotype corporation to design a new typeface: Veronese was a remake of a foundry-face Dent had used before. Series 59 came out in 1912, and was made in the same style of the Golden Type, but with sharper slab serifs a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Leonard (American Critic)
John Leonard (February 25, 1939 – November 5, 2008) was an American literary, television, film, and cultural critic. For ''Life'' and ''The New York Times'' he wrote under the pen name of Cyclops. Biography John Leonard grew up in Washington, D.C., Jackson Heights, Queens, and Long Beach, California, where he graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School. Raised by a single mother, Ruth Smith, he made his way to Harvard University, where he immersed himself in the college newspaper, ''The Harvard Crimson'', only to drop out in the spring of his second year. He then attended the University of California at Berkeley. A political leftist, Leonard had an unlikely early patron in conservative leader William F. Buckley, who gave him his first job in journalism at ''National Review'' magazine in 1959. There, he worked alongside such young talents as Joan Didion, Garry Wills, Renata Adler and Arlene Croce. Leonard went on to be Drama and Literature Director for Pacifica Radio flagship KPF ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
