Miami exposes the secret role this largely Latin city played in the Cold War, from the Bay of Pigs through Watergate. Salvador is a riveting look at the social and political landscape of civil war. The White Album covers the revolutionary politics and the "contemporary wasteland" of the late sixties and early seventies, in pieces on the Manson family, the Black Panthers, and Hollywood. Slouching Towards Bethlehem captures the counterculture of the sixties, its mood and lifestyle, as symbolized by California, Joan Baez, Haight-Ashbury.
Now the seven books of nonfiction that appeared between 19 have been brought together into one thrilling collection.
Joan Didion's incomparable and distinctive essays and journalism are admired for their acute, incisive observations and their spare, elegant style. As featured in the Netflix documentary Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold. Learn why the world wags and what wags it.About the Book For the first time, all of Didion's nonfiction writing on place, politics, lifestyle, and cultural figures from the 1960s to 2003 have been gathered together in one volume.īook Synopsis From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean, this collection includes seven books in one volume: the full texts of Slouching Towards Bethlehem The White Album Salvador Miami After Henry Political Fictions and Where I Was From. There is only one thing for it then-to learn. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder in your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewer of baser minds. In it, the magician Merlyn is giving advice to the young King Arthur: “The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. White’s wonderful “ The Once and Future King,” an Arthurian fantasy novel. Emily Dickinson’s poems about the isolation of grief made me feel-strangely-less alone I particularly recommend “The Soul’s Superior Instants” “After great pain, a Formal feeling comes,” and “I Measure Every Grief I Meet.” The poet Kevin Young has edited an excellent anthology of modern poems on grief, “ The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing.” It comes out this spring.įrankly, though, the passage that helped me survive the first long weeks came from T. Last but not least, poetry: I lived with the Everyman’s Library “ Poems of Mourning” on my bedside table.
And Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’s “ On Grief and Grieving” is worth a look she’s wise about many parts of grief, though she also stresses “enrichment” to a degree I found distasteful. Swerving over to self-help, Hope Edelman’s “ Motherless Daughters” is an informative nonfiction account of how “mother-loss” at different ages shapes female identity.
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