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Film Gives Voice to Men Falsely Convicted in Central Park Jogger Casepress as a "wolfpack" known for "wilding" --- seemed to fit the bill for many in a divided New York. Essayist Joan Didion argued in a reflection on the case in 1991, long before the exoneration of the Central Park Five, that the crime embodied
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Lap Dances, Booze and Bills: Welcome to Miami’s Club Fed
Venezuelan vanities come to play in Miami. The forever boomtown, the city Joan Didion once described as a “Latin capital a year or two away from a new government” has gentrified and softened in the past few decades
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'Steve Jobs' and 'Blue Nights' Reveal Dark Side of Adoptionadopted daughter of writer Joan Didion , had frequent nightmares daughter in the memoir " Blue Nights ." Quintana died of Both bestsellers , " Blue Nights " and "Steve Jobs mother's account in " Blue Nights ." When her beautiful
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Michelle Williams: 'I'm More Brave in My Work Than I Ever Would Be in My Life'about how she has coped with his death. After he died, Williams said she was comforted by reading " The Year of Magical Thinking " by Joan Didion , a book written about Didion's difficulty in letting go of her husband, John Gregory Dunne, in
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Patrick Swayze is Gone, But His Wife Still Texts Him
help grieving spouses. In fact, it is normal -- a kind of "magical thinking." Joan Didion coined the term in her 2005 memoir, " The Year of Magical Thinking ," about the death of her husband John Gregory Dunne. In the days after Dunne collapsed
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A Field Guide to Getting LostNot surprisingly, six months after Ledger's death , the grief-stricken Williams turned to Joan Didion 's " The Year of Magical Thinking ." "I just don't see the upside to this," she says. "You console yourself by saying it's
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First Monday: New in business TV, movies, books, magazines
The last line is something I can quote by heart. Look it up for yourself. I also love Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion . It's a collection of essays, not fiction, and the precision of her writing and her unfailing eye for observation
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A Foreign Correspondent's View of U.S. Elections
Little wonder then that the entire world is watching this election far more closely than many of the past. The writer Joan Didion depicts a country struck with a kind of blindness, or coma. “...We approach this election with no clear idea where
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America's Crossroads Through Swedish Eyes
Little wonder then that the entire world is watching this election far more closely than many of the past. The writer Joan Didion depicts a country struck with a kind of blindness, or coma. “...We approach this election with no clear idea where
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The Year in Love
so what is his experience of love? We also sat down for a candid conversation with author Joan Didion , whose book, " The Year of Magical Thinking " recounted her life following the death of her husband, John. The two lived and worked together
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Love Lessons -- Meeting, Dating and Mating
so what is his experience of love? We also sat down for a candid conversation with author Joan Didion , whose book, " The Year of Magical Thinking " recounted her life following the death of her husband, John. The two lived and worked together
