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Chronology
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
The White Album
Salvador
Miami
After Henry
Political Fictions
Where I Was From
Notes to Miami
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Kenneth Temprano
reviewed We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction on January 29, 2014 We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction
We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five.
We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely... by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the 'ideas' with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria ' which is our actual experience.
― Joan Didion
Having just finished Political Fictions, I have now killed this 1122 pg collection of Joan Didion's nonfiction (Slouching Towards Bethlehem through Where I Was From). This Everyman's Library collection contains seven of her works of nonfiction. Rather than review this collection as a whole, I'll just say it is brilliant and point my fair readers toward my seven sub-collection reviews:
1. Slouching Towards Bethlehem
2. The White Album
3. Salvador
4. Miami
5. After Henry
6. Political Fictions
7. Where I was From
Also, since it is a collection of Didion nonfiction that spans 1968 to 2003 it obviously doesn't include:
A. Fixed Ideas: America Since 9.11, 2003; or
B. The Year of Magical Thinking, 2005; or
C. Blue Nights, 2011.
As of this writing, I've read The Year of Magical Thinking (this was my first Didion ever).
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Add We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction, Joan Didion's incomparable and distinctive essays and journalism are admired for their acute, incisive observations and their spare, elegant style. Now the seven books of nonfiction that appeared between 1968 and 2003 have been brought together into one t, We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction to your collection on WonderClub |