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No writing today . . .

miraclecharlie wrote 1 week ago: I don’t have time to blog. I’m supposed to be turning over a finished chapter tonight an … more →

Tags: writing, Blogging Life, facebook, here we are going, miraclecharlie, herewearegoing, Arts, Jonas Brothers, Tumblr

Union Square

sheavy wrote 3 weeks ago: I decided to watch Union Square upon request of my Aunt Arlene, or as I like to call her, Auntie Lea … more →

Tags: film, Movie, Florida State University, FSU, Entertainment, Movies, Comedy, outdoors, Nature

Cheaper in Brown: A Memo to Stories Books and Cafe3 comments

Rodger Jacobs wrote 1 month ago: Late Thursday afternoon I’m slowly perusing the shelves at Stories Books and Cafe on Sunset fo … more →

Tags: In the Neighborhood, Metro 603, Joan Didion, Books, Thomas McGuane, Stories Books and Cafe, Used Booksellers, Los Angeles bookstores, Sunset and Alvarado

What Does Nothing Mean? - Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion2 comments

Angus Miranda wrote 3 months ago: Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion Play It As It Lays is the second novel of Joan Didion that shows u … more →

Tags: Book Rhapsody, Book Reviews, Books, Fiction, Joan Didion, Novels

"Thoughts of Tomorrow" Exhibition Proposal

carleeannmyers wrote 4 months ago: Washington County Museum of Fine Arts of Hagerstown, MD Thoughts of Tomorrow PP Inspired by the 1956 … more →

Tags: Drawings, Art, Paintings, Exhibition Proposals and Concepts, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, this is tomorrow, White Chapel Art Gallery, London, motoi yamamoto

The Best Reads of 201221 comments

Angus Miranda wrote 5 months ago: Will you hazard a guess? I’ll be doing this now since we only have ten days left before 2013 e … more →

Tags: Whatnot, 84 Charing Cross Road, A Single Man, absalom absalom!, Anna Karenina, Book Rants, Book Raves, book talk, Books

Joan Didion's 1969 Corvette Stingray

silverbirchpress wrote 7 months ago: In 2011, journalist Hari Kunzru interviewed Joan Didion for a British magazine and covered many topi … more →

Tags: women authors, Novel, Books, Authors, Writers, novelists, Celebs, Driving, Cars

We all need someone we can bleed on.1 comment

Mindy Cardozo wrote 9 months ago: Maybe it’s perfectly fitting that one of the biggest hits by the Stones is one of the least ro … more →

Tags: Queer Theory, let it bleed, The Stones, Joan Didion, Altamont, one sings the other doesn't

Aces

For Your Sins wrote 10 months ago: “Maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game?” —Joan Didion, Play It As It L … more →

Tags: Between the Covers, Words to Live By, Joan Didion

SO! L.A.: Sounding the California Story3 comments

Bridget Hoida wrote 10 months ago:  Editor’s Note: Welcome to the second installment in our month-long exploration of listening i … more →

Tags: Listening, Voice, sound, Place and space, Nostalgia, identity, Libraries, Literature, american studies

Midyear Reading Report9 comments

Angus Miranda wrote 10 months ago: 2012 Reading Challenge July 2 is the exact middle of the year. That is, for any nonleap year. But si … more →

Tags: Reading, The Sunday Salon, Books, Charlotte Bronte, David Mitchell, elfriede jelinek, Fatelessness, Fiction, Housekeeping

Trust Nothing

Cosmo Houck wrote 1 year ago: In the second semester of my junior year of college I discovered the X-Files and became a paranoid l … more →

Tags: T-V, X-Files, Fox Mulder, Brian Greene, Joan Didion, Clyde Bruckman's final repose, UFO, Belief

On the road with Joan Didion and Kelly Reichardt

schoolboyerrors wrote 1 year ago: In Play it as it Lays (1970), Maria, one of Joan Didion’s typically etherised, affluent female prota … more →

Tags: Literary criticism, film, Film (2), Joan Didion, Kelly Reichardt, wendy and lucy, River of Grass, Michelle Williams, Feminism

Don't ask why - Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion4 comments

Angus Miranda wrote 1 year ago: Yes, that is a whole chapter People ask Maria, Mar-eye-ah, what makes Iago evil. She doesn’t k … more →

Tags: Reading, Books, Novels, Fiction, Joan Didion

Books To Read: March 201214 comments

Angus Miranda wrote 1 year ago: Books to Read for March 2012 March! The last month of the first quarter. And a new set of reading pl … more →

Tags: Reading Plans, Books, elfriede jelinek, Fiction, Iris Murdoch, Joan Didion, Life of Pi, Novels, richard powers

07: A Book That I Can Quote By Heart4 comments

Emily wrote 1 year ago: When I was younger, my friends and I could recite huge chunks of the Harry Potter novels to each oth … more →

Tags: 30 Day Blog Challenge, the bell jar

Play It As It Lays - Joan Didion

Angus Miranda wrote 1 year ago: Play It As It Lays - Joan Didion Who bought it: Me. What is it: The words “ennui,” … more →

Tags: Ex libris, Books, Novels, Fiction, Joan Didion

The Rumpus Publishes Moi

Martina Newhook wrote 1 year ago: http://therumpus.net/2011/12/martina-newhook-the-last-book-i-loved-play-it-as-it-lays-3/ I love The … more →

Tags: Books, Publication, Joan Didion, The Rumpus

Two live ones

Zachary Cale wrote 1 year ago: Here are two live videos from the other night at The Sock Hop!  Thanks to Ryan P. James for filming … more →

Tags: videos, Zachary Cale, The Sock Hop


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