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Blue Nights (Enhanced Edition)

Author	: Joan Didion
Publisher	: Knopf
Release Date	: 2012-01-17
ISBN	: 0307961370
Pages	: 210 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Blue Nights (Enhanced Edition) written by Joan Didion and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enhanced eBook edition of Blue Nights includes three short films directed by Griffin Dunne and starring Joan Didion. Each film blends Didion's incisive prose with images and mementos from her daughter's life. From one of our most powerful writers, Blue Nights is a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly textured with bits of her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didion examines her thoughts, fears, and doubts regarding having children, illness, and growing old. Blue Nights opens on July 26, 2010, as Didion thinks back to Quintana’s wedding in New York seven years before. Today would be her wedding anniversary. This fact triggers vivid snapshots of Quintana’s childhood—in Malibu, in Brentwood, at school in Holmby Hills. Reflecting on her daughter but also on her role as a parent, Didion asks the candid questions any parent might about how she feels she failed either because cues were not taken or perhaps displaced. “How could I have missed what was clearly there to be seen?” Finally, perhaps we all remain unknown to each other. Seamlessly woven in are incidents Didion sees as underscoring her own age, something she finds hard to acknowledge, much less accept. Blue Nights—the long, light evening hours that signal the summer solstice, “the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but also its warning”—like The Year of Magical Thinking before it, is an iconic book of incisive and electric honesty, haunting and profoundly moving.

Red Hot Blue Nights

Author	: LeRoy Hewitt Jr.
Publisher	: iUniverse
Release Date	: 2010-09-10
ISBN	: 1450245218
Pages	: 256 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Red Hot Blue Nights written by LeRoy Hewitt Jr. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-09-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Red Hot Blue Nights," is the third book written by the author. His first book is entitled "Crime Love & Black Pearls, and the second is entitled "Mad Guns Till Romance." I enjoyed writing "Red Hot Blue Nights" very much, as well as the other two existing books. This particular book is very exciting and fun to read. If you love reading, this is a book you must own.

Orange Days and Blue Nights from Philadelphia

Author	: Antonio Gray
Publisher	: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date	: 2009-08-27
ISBN	: 1469121956
Pages	: 67 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (691 download)

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Download or read book Orange Days and Blue Nights from Philadelphia written by Antonio Gray and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-08-27 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Orange Days and Blue Nights from Philadelphia, the poet Antonio Gray expresses his experiences with love and urban life as an escape for a better tomorrow in and outside of Philadelphia. He also consistently paints vivid pictures of love's won and love's lost, but also the lessons learn from them. Gray however, sheds a more morbid picture from time to time on urban life when it comes to drugs, thieves, and one night stands. Antonio Gray attended Community College of Philadelphia. He won a Joseph Rizzello Award for excellence in poetry in 2007 for the poems "Daily Task" and "Gia and the Ghost".

Blue Knights

Author	: International Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club, Inc
Publisher	: Turner Publishing Company
Release Date	: 1999
ISBN	: 1563115158
Pages	: 124 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book Blue Knights written by International Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club, Inc and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Just Add Music

Author	: David J. McMullen
Publisher	: Strategic Book Publishing
Release Date	: 2013-08
ISBN	: 1625166702
Pages	: 62 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book Just Add Music written by David J. McMullen and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone loves a song! But what is a song? To pare it back to basics, a song is a three- to five-minute story usually set to music. It generally consists of three or more verses tied together by a chorus. While the music is vital in conveying what the song sounds like and in capturing the listener’s attention, it is the lyrics and the vocalist’s interpretation of them that tell the story. In Just Add Music, or JAM, David J McMullen has compiled the lyrics to fit most popular genres of music, including but not limited to rock, pop, blues, country, Caribbean and adult contemporary. JAM is a book of 55 sets (Top 50 Plus 5) of song lyrics written for composers, producers and musicians to add the music to complete each song.

Disjointed Perspectives on Motherhood

Author	: Catalina Florina Florescu
Publisher	: Lexington Books
Release Date	: 2013-10-29
ISBN	: 0739183184
Pages	: 264 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Disjointed Perspectives on Motherhood written by Catalina Florina Florescu and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disjointed Perspectives on Motherhood seeks to reevaluate the concept of unconditional maternal love and the global emancipation of motherhood as recorded from 17th century onward and as analyzed in various genres: cinema, poetry, novel, drama, and mystery fiction series. By using unprecedented comparative critical approaches such as phenomenological, medical, feminist, and re-enchantment theories, and by analyzing works from literature, cinema, and visual arts, this collection attempts to reestablish and redefine a canonical concept with the intention to revitalize an otherwise taken-for-granted image and role.

The Production of Lateness

Author	: Rahel Rivera Godoy-Benesch
Publisher	: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Release Date	: 2020-05-11
ISBN	: 3772001149
Pages	: 205 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Production of Lateness written by Rahel Rivera Godoy-Benesch and published by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines how selected authors of the late 20th and early 21st centuries write about their creative processes in old age and thus purposefully produce a late style of their own. Late-life creativity has not always been viewed favourably. Prevalent "peak-and-decline" models suggest that artists, as they grow old, cease to produce highquality work. Aiming to counter such ageist discourses, the present study proposes a new ethics of reading literary texts by elderly authors. For this purpose, it develops a methodology that consolidates textual analysis with cultural gerontology.

Catalog of Copyright Entries

Author	: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1962
ISBN	:
Pages	: 1024 pages
Rating	: 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Learning to Live in Boys’ Schools

Author	: Donal O'Donoghue
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2018-08-06
ISBN	: 1317384857
Pages	: 230 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Learning to Live in Boys’ Schools written by Donal O'Donoghue and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about boys’ experiences of being educated in independent single-sex schools in Canada. These experiences, which are oftentimes attributed to particular places and moments at school, reveal ways in which school places are both "companionable" and "influential" in how boys become available to themselves and others as they pursue the possibility of becoming somebody. Curious about how masculinities show up in places at school and studying the sorts of gendered subjectivities that such places invite, entice, support and deny, the book extends beyond traditional ways of thinking and writing about the production of masculinities in education by introducing a different set of conceptual orientations and inquiry practices, including post-masculinities, weak theory, and art-led research and thought practices.

The Last Love Song

Author	: Tracy Daugherty
Publisher	: St. Martin's Press
Release Date	: 2015-08-25
ISBN	: 1466877405
Pages	: 672 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Last Love Song written by Tracy Daugherty and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Last Love Song, Tracy Daugherty, the critically acclaimed author of Hiding Man (a New Yorker and New York Times Notable book) and Just One Catch, and subject of the hit documentary The Center Will Not Hold on Netflix delves deep into the life of distinguished American author and journalist Joan Didion in this, the first printed biography published about her life. Joan Didion lived a life in the public and private eye with her late husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, whom she met while the two were working in New York City when Didion was at Vogue and Dunne was writing for Time. They became wildly successful writing partners when they moved to Los Angeles and co-wrote screenplays and adaptations together. Didion is well-known for her literary journalistic style in both fiction and non-fiction. Some of her most-notable work includes Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Run River, and The Year of Magical Thinking, a National Book Award winner and shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize. It dealt with the grief surrounding Didion after the loss of her husband and daughter. Daugherty takes readers on a journey back through time, following a young Didion in Sacramento through to her adult life as a writer interviewing those who know and knew her personally, while maintaining a respectful distance from the reclusive literary great. The Last Love Song reads like fiction; lifelong fans, and readers learning about Didion for the first time will be enthralled with this impressive tribute.

Conversations with Joan Didion

Author	: Scott F. Parker
Publisher	: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date	: 2018-02-06
ISBN	: 1496815548
Pages	: 186 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Joan Didion written by Scott F. Parker and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joan Didion (b. 1934) is an American icon. Her essays, particularly those in Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album, have resonated in American culture to a degree unmatched over the past half century. Two generations of writers have taken her as the measure of what it means to write personal essays. No one writes about California, the sixties, media narratives, cultural mythology, or migraines without taking Didion into account. She has also written five novels; several screenplays with her husband, John Gregory Dunne; and three late-in-life memoirs, including The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights, which have brought her a new wave of renown. Conversations with Joan Didion features seventeen interviews with the author, spanning decades, continents, and genres. Didion reflects on her childhood in Sacramento; her time at Berkeley (both as a student and later as a visiting professor), in New York, and in Hollywood; her marriage to Dunne; and of course her writing. Didion describes her methods of writing, the ways in which the various genres she has worked in inform one another, and the concerns that have motivated her to write.

Writing Widowhood

Author	: Jeffrey Berman
Publisher	: State University of New York Press
Release Date	: 2015-10-06
ISBN	: 1438458215
Pages	: 246 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Writing Widowhood written by Jeffrey Berman and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how memoirs of widowhood can help us understand the reality of bereavement and the critical role of writing and reading in recovery. The death of a beloved spouse after a lifetime of companionship is a life-changing experience. To help understand the reality of bereavement, Jeffrey Berman focuses on five extraordinary American writers—Joan Didion, Sandra Gilbert, Gail Godwin, Kay Redfield Jamison, and Joyce Carol Oates—each of whom has written a memoir of spousal loss. In each chapter, Berman gives an overview of the writer’s life and art before widowhood, including her early preoccupation with death, and then discusses the writer’s memoir and her life as a widow. He discovers that writing was, for all of these authors, both a solace and a lifeline, enabling them to maintain bonds with their lost loved ones while simultaneously moving on with their lives. These memoirs of widowhood, Berman maintains, reveal not only courage and resilience in the face of loss, but also the critical role of writing and reading in bereavement and recovery. Jeffrey Berman is Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He is the author of many books, including Death in the Classroom: Writing about Love and Loss and Dying to Teach: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Learning, both also published by SUNY Press.

Catalog of Copyright Entries

Author	:
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1945
ISBN	:
Pages	: 1188 pages
Rating	: 4.:/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 1188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Joan Didion

Author	: Kathleen M. Vandenberg
Publisher	: State University of New York Press
Release Date	: 2021-02-01
ISBN	: 1438481403
Pages	: 220 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Joan Didion written by Kathleen M. Vandenberg and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how Didion’s nonfiction prose style, often lauded for being beautiful and poetic, also works rhetorically. Much acclaimed and often imitated, Joan Didion remains one of the leading American essayists and political journalists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The lone woman writer among the New Journalists in the 1960s and '70s, Didion became a powerful critic of public and political mythologies in the '80s and '90s, and was an inspiration for those, particularly women, dealing with aging and grief and loss in the early 2000s. An iconic figure, Didion is still much admired by readers, critics, and essayists, who speak of looking to her prose style as a model for their own. In Joan Didion: Substance and Style, Kathleen M. Vandenberg explores how Didion's nonfiction prose style, often lauded for its beauty and poetry, also works rhetorically. Through close readings of selected nonfiction from the last forty years—biographically, culturally, and politically situated—Vandenberg reveals how Didion deliberately and powerfully employs style to emphasize her point of view and enchant her readers. While Didion continues to publish and the "Cult of Joan," as one author calls it, grows seemingly stronger by the day, this book is the only extended treatment of Didion's later nonfiction and the first sustained and close consideration of how her essays work at the level of the sentence. Kathleen M. Vandenberg is Senior Lecturer in Rhetoric at Boston University.

Bastard in the Ragged Suit

Author	: Herman Spector
Publisher	: Synergistic Press
Release Date	: 1977
ISBN	: 9780912184036
Pages	: 226 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Bastard in the Ragged Suit written by Herman Spector and published by Synergistic Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Moons of the Swan

Author	: Jackson Burrows
Publisher	: Page Publishing Inc
Release Date	: 2020-11-11
ISBN	: 1645446913
Pages	: 562 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Moons of the Swan written by Jackson Burrows and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E.V.A.IN.E., the ancestors ghost and guide of the old makers colony, stood before the artificial intelligent remake of her creator's figure. "There was one before me. The one who created me. The power to be whole was made for me. I heard his mind's voice before anything else. The spoken mandate, the wished for... the command! All the life, all the means, all his gifts make up this image of me... I am here to confirm his beauty. Before the breaking of every morning, of every night's caress to its arrival, I am called upon to flight. I dance the purpose of his sight. His knowledge resides in me...that no other may know. That which can make another to transcend! E.V.A.IN.E. the ancestors ghost and guide of the bonded ones.

Boundless: An Anthology of Prose

Author	: David G. Collins
Publisher	: Compass Flower Press
Release Date	: 2018-05-17
ISBN	: 1942168853
Pages	: 182 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Boundless: An Anthology of Prose written by David G. Collins and published by Compass Flower Press. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second anthology from Compass Flower Press, Boundless contains sixteen short stories from writers across North America. These prize-winning authors include Evan Guilford-Blake (first place), Anneliese Schultz, Linda Johnson, Peggy DeKay, Julia Simpson-Urrutia, Bill Mesce, Jr., Ellen Birkett Morris, Dawn Paul, Donna Volkenannt, Von Pittman, Matthue Roth, Rosemary McKinley, Sharon Buzzard, Mary Pacifico Curtis, Ida Bettis Fogle, and Marcia Calhoun Forecki. The span of fiction adn creative nonfiction work falls into several genres. The editor for the project was David G. Collins.