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What Does Nothing Mean? – Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion Play It As It Lays is the second novel of Joan Didion that shows us Maria’s spiral descent into self-destruction. The anti-heroine, a forgettable actress and th… more →
Book Rhapsody
No writing today . . .
wrote 1 week ago: I don’t have time to blog. I’m supposed to be turning over a finished chapter tonight an … more →
Union Square
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 →
Cheaper in Brown: A Memo to Stories Books and Cafe
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wrote 1 month ago: Late Thursday afternoon I’m slowly perusing the shelves at Stories Books and Cafe on Sunset fo … more →
What Does Nothing Mean? - Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
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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 →
"Thoughts of Tomorrow" Exhibition Proposal
wrote 4 months ago: Washington County Museum of Fine Arts of Hagerstown, MD Thoughts of Tomorrow PP Inspired by the 1956 … more →
The Best Reads of 2012
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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 →
Joan Didion's 1969 Corvette Stingray
wrote 7 months ago: In 2011, journalist Hari Kunzru interviewed Joan Didion for a British magazine and covered many topi … more →
We all need someone we can bleed on.
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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 →
Aces
wrote 10 months ago: “Maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game?” —Joan Didion, Play It As It L … more →
SO! L.A.: Sounding the California Story
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wrote 10 months ago: Editor’s Note: Welcome to the second installment in our month-long exploration of listening i … more →
Midyear Reading Report
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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 →
Trust Nothing
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 →
On the road with Joan Didion and Kelly Reichardt
wrote 1 year ago: In Play it as it Lays (1970), Maria, one of Joan Didion’s typically etherised, affluent female prota … more →
Don't ask why - Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
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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 →
Books To Read: March 2012
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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 →
07: A Book That I Can Quote By Heart
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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 →
Play It As It Lays - Joan Didion
wrote 1 year ago: Play It As It Lays - Joan Didion Who bought it: Me. What is it: The words “ennui,” … more →
The Rumpus Publishes Moi
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 →
Two live ones
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 →
