Joan Didion: What She Means
An exploration of the visual corollary to Didion's life and work and the feeling that each generates in her admirers, detractors and critics-including artists from Helen Lundeberg to Diane Arbus, Betye Saar to Maren Hassinger, Vija Celmins and And...
The Joan Didion Collection
The ultimate Didion: all 17 of her major works of fiction, journalism, and memoir together for the first time in a 3-volume boxed set 'Essential.' --Esquire In 1968, a collection of reportage appeared that was unlike anything seen before, remarkable in its literary aspiration and a milestone in what would become known as the New Journalism. A series of wickedly incisive portraits of California and its people--from fading stars to homicidal housewives to drug-addled hippies--Slouching Towards Bethlehem was a sensation, signaling the arrival of a major writer. It attracted not only readers but devotees, and Joan Didion became more than just a celebrated author, she became an icon for the age. Now, for the first time, all her best-known and most enduring works are gathered together in a career-spanning 3-volume Library of America boxed set. THE JOAN DIDION COLLECTION includes: I. The 1960s & 70s Run River Slouching Towards Bethlehem Play It As It Lays A Book of Common Prayer The White
Joan Didion: The Last Interview
The iconic writer whose prose was as influential and as it is unmistakably hers is joined in conversation with Sheila Heti, Hilton Als, Dave Eggers, Hari Kunzru and many more. Some writers define a generation. Some a genre. Joan Didion did both, and much more. Didion rose to prominence with her nonfiction collection, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, and she quickly became the writer who defined the washed-out, acid hangover of the 60s. But the bicoastal writer of fiction and nonfiction, whose writing ranged from profoundly personal essays and raw, intimate memoirs was equally a writer focused on international affairs, political intrigue, and social justice. This collection encompasses it all, in conversations that delve into her underappreciated mid-career works, her influences, the loss of her husband and daughter, and her most infamous essays. Far from the evasive image of a terse minimalist that has come to dominate the image of Joan Didion, what this collection reveals is a warm,
Connie
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Joan
The Sunday Times bestseller and inspiration for the ITV drama Diamonds are a girl's best friend Joan Hannington was the most notorious female figure in London's criminal underworld during the 80s, earning her the nickname 'The Godmother'. With her...
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My Pinup
In this brilliant two-part memoir, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Hilton Als distills into one cocktail the deep and potent complexities of love and of loss, of Prince and of power, of desire and of race. It's delicious and it's got the kick of...
White Girls
'I defy you to read this book and come away with a mind unchanged' John Jeremiah Sullivan 'Als has a serious claim to be regarded as the next James Baldwin' Observer 'I see how we are all the same, that none of us are white women or black men; rat...
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Joan Boix: Antologi
Den spanske serieskaparen Joan Boix har en omväxlande och imponerande lång karriär. I denna antologi samlas ett brett urval av hans serier från 1970- och 1980-talet. Skräck, satir, humor och science fiction, varav en del tidigare har publicerats på svenska i serietidningarna Fantomen, Agent X9, Magnum Comics, Serie-Nytt och Seriemix. Sedan 1990-talet är Joan Boix en hörnsten i den svenska produktionen av serien Fantomen, och han var även en av de flitigaste tecknarna i den svenska produktionen a
Judith Butler Reader
The Judith Butler Reader is a collection of writings that span her impressive career and trace her intellectual history. Judith Butler, author of influential books such as Gender Trouble, has built her international reputation as a theorist of pow...
Butler Plays: 1
Butler Plays: 1 brings together into one volume four of the major plays by this award-winning author. Praised for the gritty detail and realism of his work, Leo Butler has quietly established a reputation in recent years as a potent and skilfull d...
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Joan Snyder: Body & Soul
Rigorous interrogation of abstraction underpinned by a feminist outlook For six decades, American artist Joan Snyder (born 1940) has reimagined the narrative potential of abstraction through her paintings, drawings and prints, consciously working against the male-dominated conventions of Minimalism, Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting prevalent at her career's start. This publication celebrates the work of this pioneering artist, featuring stunning reproductions of 46 of her paintings, spanning from the early 1960s to the present day. In addition to full images of the works, high-quality detail shots allow readers to immerse themselves in the rich materiality of her work. The catalog includes archival imagery and sketches from Snyder's personal notebooks, offering an intimate glimpse into her artistic process. Texts by writer Emily LaBarge and art historian Susan L. Aberth provide insight, deepening our understanding of the motifs and techniques of Snyder's practice.
Cook with Joan Roca
Cook with Joan Roca teaches step-by-step, with over 2,000 photographs, the main techniques for preparation, cooking and preservation of foods. He also explains the essential basics and foundations of culinary skills. This book shares twenty-five y...
Year of Magical Thinking
'This happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won't when it happens to you?' Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw th...
Låt Mig Berätta Vad Jag Menar
Joan Didion föddes i Sacramento, Kalifornien 1934 och dog i New York 2021. Hon inledde sin journalistiska bana på Vogue och debuterade som författare med romanen Run River 1963. Mest känd är hon för sina reportage och essäer. Flera samlingar har publicerats i USA; Slouching towards Bethlehem och The White Album hålls idag som klassiker. Låt mig berätta vad jag menar är Joan Didions sista samling texter. Dessa tolv texter, skrivna mellan 1968 till 2000, visar upp Joan Didions skarpa iakttagelseförmåga, hennes empatiska blick och hennes roll som "välartikulerat vittne till vår tids mest envisa och svårlösta sanningar" (The New York Times Book Review).Översättning: Magdalena Sørensen "Oavsett om hon ansåg sig vara en del av en "kvinnorörelse" eller inte, spelade hennes sätt att skriva en avgörande roll i den. Jag fick aldrig tacka henne för det, förutom genom imitation, medveten och omedveten. Även om hon utan tvekan skulle ha funnit idén sentimental och onödigt banal, är jag en del av en stor armé av kvinnliga författare som står i skuld till henne." – Zadie Smith "Det är enkeltatt beskriva Joan Didion som essäist: hon håller huvudet kallt. Eller som Jan Gradvall skriver i sitt efterord till Didions greatest hits-samling på svenska: Hon tittar skeptiskt på när flocken reagerar med instinkt och översvallande känslor. Didion är, bland mycket annat, en av de främsta uttolkarna av amerikansk kultur – hennes texter handlar om allt från John Wayne till hippierörelsen och Irakkriget, om ovanligt vanligt folk med vanligt ovanliga drömmar." --- Aase Berg, Expressen
Anteckningar
På 1970-talet gav sig Joan Didion ut på två långa reportageresor i två kontrasterande delar av USA: Södern och Västern. Genom att förstå Södern ville hon förstå Kalifornien, där hon vuxit upp. Under dessa resor förde hon anteckningar som aldrig publicerades. Nu, nästan 40 år senare, har de samlats till en kusligt aktuell berättelse om USA. Didion intervjuar människor hon möter på motell och diners. Hon skriver om den kvävande hettan, det smutsiga ljuset och de kvardröjande konflikterna kring ras och klass i de småstäder hon passerar igenom. De båda resorna representerar två poler i den amerikanska erfarenheten och kan läsas som fascinerande tidsdokument, eller som förstudier till den utveckling som i dag riskerar att slita landet i två delar. Pressröster om Anteckningar: Om det är så här Didions anteckningsböcker ser ut, ge oss då tillgång till dem allihop. Minneapolis Star Tribune ... en rad från Didion är värd tio rader från nästan vilken annan författare som helst. The Boston Globe Även det meningslösa får betydelse. Den sortens paradox är central hos Didion: hon hittar en ruin och gör den hel och vacker med sin prosa. Los Angeles Times Bland Joan Didions beundrare är somliga så pass hänförda att de (okej, vi) gladeligen skulle läsa hennes samlade inköpslistor. Washington Post Du kommer att lära dig mer om USA:s framtid av Didions fyrtio år gamla fältnoteringar än från morgondagens tidning. Esquire
Year of Magical Thinking
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *¿NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage-and a life...
I Write to Find Out What I Am Thinking: Collected Nonfiction
This second hardcover omnibus edition of Didion's collected nonfiction contains her final four books: Blue Nights, South and West, Let Me Tell You What I Mean, and her bestselling and most famous work, The Year of Magical Thinking. In her essay 'Why I Write' (included in this volume), Joan Didion explained what lies behind her iconic nonfiction writing: 'I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means.' Across her long and prolific career, readers have been blessed time and again by her brilliance as a prose stylist and a social commentator. From her unforgettable reckonings with grief (for her husband in The Year of Magical Thinking and for her daughter in Blue Nights), to her exploration of two iconic regions of America in South and West, through the indelible pieces of reporting collected from across her career in Let Me Tell You What I Mean, the books collected here show Didion at her best: bearing witness to our history,
Political Fictions
An incisive compilation of political essays, originally written for The New York Review of Books from 1988 to 2000, explores the nature of American politics and political figures and the role of the media in transforming the American political landscape. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.
Run River
The iconic writer's electrifying first novel is a story of marriage, murder and betrayal that only she could tell with such nuance, sympathy, and suspense--from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean. Everett McClellan and his wife, Lily, are the great-grandchildren of pioneers, and what happens to them is a tragic epilogue to the pioneer experience--a haunting portrait of a marriage whose wrong turns and betrayals are at once absolutely idiosyncratic and a razor-sharp commentary on the history of California.
Where I Was from: A Memoir
From¿the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking : In this "arresting amalgam of memoir and historical timeline" ( The Baltimore Sun ), Didion-a native Californian-reassesses parts of her life, her work, h...
Let Me Tell You What I Mean
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From one of our most iconic and influential writers, the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women, and her own self-doubt. With a forward by Hilton Als, these twelve pieces from 1968 to 2000, never before gathered together, offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary figure. They showcase Joan Didion's incisive reporting, her empathetic gaze, and her role as 'an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time' (The New York Times Book Review). Here, Didion touches on topics ranging from newspapers ('the problem is not so much whether one trusts the news as to whether one finds it'), to the fantasy of San Simeon, to not getting into Stanford. In 'Why I Write,' Didion ponders the act of
After Henry
In her latest forays into the American scene, the author of Miami, Democracy, and Salvador covers ground from Washington to Los Angeles and from a TV producer's mansion to the racial battlefields of New York's criminal courts. And along the way, she reveals the mythic narratives that other commentators miss.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Celebrated, iconic, and indispensable, Joan Didion's first work of nonfiction, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, is considered a watershed moment in American writing. First published in 1968, the collection was critically praised as one of the 'best prose written in this country.' More than perhaps any other book, this collection by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era captures the unique time and place of Joan Didion's focus, exploring subjects such as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up in California and the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, and, especially, the essence of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture. As Joyce Carol Oates remarked: ' Didion] has been an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time, a memorable voice, partly eulogistic, partly despairing; always in control.'
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Beautifully repackaged as part of the Picador Modern Classics Series, this special edition is small enough to fit in your pocket and bold enough to stand out on your bookshelf. Celebrated, iconic, and indispensable, Joan Didion's first work of nonfiction, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, is considered a watershed moment in American writing. First published in 1968, the collection was critically praised as one of the 'best prose written in this country.' More than perhaps any other book, this collection by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era captures the unique time and place of Joan Didion's focus, exploring subjects such as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up in California and the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, and, especially, the essence of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture. As Joyce Carol Oates remarked: ' Didion] has been an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time, a
Play It As It Lays
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion's Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil---literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul---it remains more than three decades after its original publication a profoundly disturbing novel, riveting in its exploration of a woman and a society in crisis and stunning in the still-startling intensity of its prose.
Where I Was From
A memoir of land, family and perseverance from one of the most influential writers in America. In this moving and surprising book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history - and America's. Where I Was From, in Didion's words...
Live and Learn
This comprehensive edition brings together for the first time three seminal collections by legendary essayist and journalist Joan Didion: Slouching toward Bethlehem, White Album and Sentimental Journeys. Prefaced with a new introduction by Joan Di...
Play It As It Lays
A profoundly disturbing novel that ruthlessly dissects American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The White Album and The Year of Magical Thinking. One thing in my defence, not that it matters: I know what 'nothing' means, and keep on pla...
I Write To Find Out What I Am Thinking
This hardcover omnibus edition of Didion's collected nonfiction contains her final four books: Blue Nights, South and West, Let Me Tell You What I Mean, and her bestselling and most famous work, The Year of Magical Thinking In her essay "Why I Write" (included in this volume), Joan Didion explained what lies behind her iconic nonfiction writing: "I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means." Across her long and prolific career, readers have been blessed time and again by her brilliance as a prose stylist and a social commentator. Form her unforgettable reckonings with grief (for her husband in The Year of Magical Thinking and for her daughter in Blue Nights), to her exploration of two iconic regions of America in South and West, through the indelible pieces of reporting collected from across her career in Let Me Tell You What I Mean, the books collected here show Didion at her best: bearing witness to our history, illuminating our culture, and shedding light on the human condition.
Notes To John
An extraordinary work from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights In November 1999, Joan Didion began seeing a psychiatrist because, as she wrote to a friend, her family had had ?a rough few years? She described the sessions in a journal she created for her husband, John Gregory Dunne. For several months, Didion recorded conversations with the psychiatrist in meticulous detail. The initial sessions focused on alcoholism, adoption, depression, anxiety, guilt, and the heartbreaking complexities of her relationship with her daughter, Quintana. The subjects evolved to include her work, which she was finding difficult to maintain for sustained periods. There were discussions about her own childhood misunderstandings and lack of communication with her mother and father, her early tendency to anticipate catastrophe and the question of legacy, or, as she put it? what it's been worth? The analysis would continue for more than a decade.Didion's journal was crafted with the singular intelligence, precision, and elegance that characterize all of her writing. It is an unprecedently intimate account that reveals sides of her that were unknown, but the voice is unmistakably hers questioning, courageous, and clear in the face of a wrenchingly painful journey.
Kalifornien - Min Historia
I slutet av 1700-talet lämnade Joan Didions mors mormors mormors mormor den amerikanska östkusten för att skapa sig ett bättre liv i det förlovade landet, Kalifornien. Joan Didion växer upp med familjens historier om äventyren, modet och rättrådigheten, och hur de byggde Kalifornien. Berättelser som alla betonar den unika kaliforniska sjävlvständighetslängtan, överlevnadsförmågan och oberoendet. Hur man byggde världens bästa samhälle helt på egen hand. Kalifornien : Min historia är en personlig uppgörelse, kärleksfull men knivskarp. Med myterna kring familjens och Kaliforniens självbild. Hon finner en avgrund mellan det stoff drömmarna vävts av och verkligheten.