The covert sphere : secrecy, fiction, and the national security state / Timothy Melley. by Melley, Timothy, 1963-

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The Presence of others : readings for critical thinking and writing / [edited by] Andrea A. Lunsford, John J. Ruszkiewicz.

Table of Contents: “…The Marilyn Monroe poem / Judy Grahn -- On going home / Joan Didion -- A native woman / Karen Cooper / Ozzie and Harriet in hell / Jay Overocker -- The colorings of childhood / David Updike / Just different, that's all / Serena -- A day in the homeless life / Collette H. …”

Writing Los Angeles : a literary anthology / edited by David L. Ulin.

Table of Contents: “…/ Jules Siegel -- Los Angeles notebook ; The Getty ; Quiet days in Malibu ; Fire season / Joan Didion -- waiting ; betting on now ; The death of my father / Charles Bukowski -- from The kindness of strangers / Salka Viertel -- from Los Angeles : the architecture of four ecologies / Reyner Banham -- from Beneath the underdog / Charles Mingus -- from Bike riding in Los Angeles / Marc Norman -- Autopia / Cees Nooteboom -- The city of robots / Umberto Eco -- from David Hockney by David Hockney / David Hockney -- Los Angeles : the know-how city / Jan Morris -- from The sexual outlaw / John Rechy -- Eureka! …”

Writing widowhood : the landscapes of bereavement / Jeffrey Berman. by Berman, Jeffrey, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Meeting Gail GodwinEvenings at Five; Setting Fire to Their Respective Lives; "I Wonder What My Last Words Will Be"; "Four Stimulating but Often Puzzling Parts of My Own Character"; "We Still Have Some More Time Together"; "Death Had Always Fascinated Rudy"; "Two Old Hearts, Still Entwined"; "Stop All Alcohol"; Differences between Evenings at Five and A Widow's Story; Completing the Story; Pointers toward Wholeness; 4 Joan Didion: The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights; Slouching towards Bethlehem; Play It as It Lays; A Book of Common Prayer; The White Album; Anti-Psychiatry.…”
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Storytelling for lawyers / Philip N. Meyer. by Meyer, Philip N.

Table of Contents: “…Dangerous Territory: Contrasting Settings Evoking Danger and Instability in Joan Didion's "The White Album" and the Judicial Opinion in a Rape Case; III. …”
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A star is born / a Warner Bros. Pictures presents ; in association with Live Nation Productions ; in association with Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures ; a Jon Peters production ; a Bill Gerber production ; a Joint Effort production ; directed by Bradley Cooper ; screenplay by Eric Roth and Bradley Cooper & Will Fetters ; produced by Bill Gerber ; produced by Jon Peters ; produced by Bradley Cooper, Todd Phillips ; produced by Lynette Howell Taylor.

The Tudor style : poems new and selected. by Smither, Elizabeth, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Casanova's ankleCasanova's equipment box; Casanova and le travel; Ignatius's birthday; The terrapin; Reading Galway Kinnell; Swimming; The meeting of ocean and air; Swimming in a shoal of little fish; The safe beach; Swimming with the dead woman; I think Joan Didion has died; Wise Boswell; A weekend in the country; Brutal pruning of a camellia tree; A white camellia; Sputnik and star; A skyful of stars; Wave over rock; Finding the tiger skeleton; Daughter rescued by a spider during mass; Crucifer, thurifer; First speech lesson; Shakespeare virgins; Behind the mind of a good cliché…”
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The Tudor style : poems new and selected. by Smither, Elizabeth, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Casanova's ankleCasanova's equipment box; Casanova and le travel; Ignatius's birthday; The terrapin; Reading Galway Kinnell; Swimming; The meeting of ocean and air; Swimming in a shoal of little fish; The safe beach; Swimming with the dead woman; I think Joan Didion has died; Wise Boswell; A weekend in the country; Brutal pruning of a camellia tree; A white camellia; Sputnik and star; A skyful of stars; Wave over rock; Finding the tiger skeleton; Daughter rescued by a spider during mass; Crucifer, thurifer; First speech lesson; Shakespeare virgins; Behind the mind of a good cliché…”
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America's most alarming writer : essays on the life and work of Charles Bowden / edited by Bill Broyles and Bruce J. Dinges.

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Literature, the human experience / [compiled by] Richard Abcarian, Marvin Klotz.

Table of Contents: “…. -- Shooting an elephant / George Orwell -- Five ripe pears / William Saroyan -- On morality / Joan Didion -- On dumpster diving / Lars Eighner.…”