We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live
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We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction is a 2006 collection of nonfiction by Joan Didion
. It includes the full content of her first seven volumes of nonfiction: Slouching Towards Bethlehem
, The White Album
, Salvador
, Miami
, After Henry
, Political Fictions
, and Where I Was From
. The volume includes an introduction by John Leonard
. The title is taken form the opening line of her essay The White Album in the book of the same name.
Joan Didion
Joan Didion is an American author best known for her novels and her literary journalism. Her novels and essays explore the disintegration of American morals and cultural chaos, where the overriding theme is individual and social fragmentation...
. It includes the full content of her first seven volumes of nonfiction: Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Slouching Towards Bethlehem is a 1968 collection of essays by Joan Didion and mainly describes her experiences in California during the 1960s. It takes its title from the poem "The Second Coming," by W. B. Yeats...
, The White Album
The White Album (book)
The White Album is a 1979 book of essays by Joan Didion. The entire contents of this book are reprinted in Didion's We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction .-I...
, Salvador
Salvador (book)
Salvador is a 1983 book-length essay by Joan Didion on American involvement in El Salvador....
, Miami
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 President Batista January 1, 1959 and the way in which that...
, After Henry
After Henry (book)
After Henry is a 1992 book of essays by Joan Didion.The entire contents of this book are reprinted in We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction .-"After Henry":...
, Political Fictions
Political Fictions
Political Fictions is a 2001 book of essays by Joan Didion on the American political process.-Essays:Written for The New York Review of Books between October 1988 and October 2000, the collection includes three essays previously published as the "Washington" section of After Henry.-Content:Didion...
, and Where I Was From
Where I Was From
Where I Was From is a 2003 book of essays by Joan Didion. It considers aspects of the history of California, as well as her own and her family's history in that state.-Didion on Where I Was From:...
. The volume includes an introduction by John Leonard
John Leonard (American critic)
John Leonard was an American literary, television, film, and cultural critic.-Biography:John Leonard grew up in Washington, D.C., Jackson Heights, Queens, and Long Beach, California, where he graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School...
. The title is taken form the opening line of her essay The White Album in the book of the same name.