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'''''The White Album''''' is a 1979 book of [[essay|essays]] by [[Joan Didion]]. Like her previous book ''[[Slouching Towards Bethlehem]]'', ''The White Album'' is a collection of works previously published in magazines such as ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'' and ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]''. The subjects of the essays range widely and represent a mixture of [[memoir]], [[criticism]], and [[journalism]], focusing on the history and politics of [[California]] in the late 1960s and early 70s. With the publication of ''The White Album'', Didion had established herself as a prominent writer on Californian culture. As |
'''''The White Album''''' is a 1979 book of [[essay|essays]] by [[Joan Didion]]. Like her previous book ''[[Slouching Towards Bethlehem]]'', ''The White Album'' is a collection of works previously published in magazines such as ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'' and ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]''. The subjects of the essays range widely and represent a mixture of [[memoir]], [[criticism]], and [[journalism]], focusing on the history and politics of [[California]] in the late 1960s and early 70s. With the publication of ''The White Album'', Didion had established herself as a prominent writer on Californian culture. As one contemporary reviewer stated, "California belongs to Joan Didion."<ref>Kakutani, Michiko. [https://www.nytimes.com/1979/06/10/books/didion-calif.html "Joan Didion: Staking Out California."] ''The New York Times''. Accessed November 7, 2014.</ref> |
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The title of the book comes from its first essay, "The White Album", which was chosen as one of the 10 most important essays since 1950 by ''[[Publishers Weekly]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/54337-the-top-10-essays-since-1950.html |title=The Top 10 Essays Since 1950|publisher=Publishers Weekly|access-date=April 22, 2013}}</ref> The opening sentence of this essay—"We tell ourselves stories in order to live"—would become one of Didion's best-known<ref>"'We tell ourselves stories in order to live,' Didion famously wrote in ''The White Album''." Schine, Cathleen. [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/nov/24/elegy-void/ "Elegy to the Void."] ''The New York Review of Books''. Accessed November 7, 2014. </ref> sayings, and was used as the title of a [[We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live|2006 collection of Didion's nonfiction]]. |
The title of the book comes from its first essay, "The White Album", which was chosen as one of the 10 most important essays since 1950 by ''[[Publishers Weekly]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/54337-the-top-10-essays-since-1950.html |title=The Top 10 Essays Since 1950|publisher=Publishers Weekly|access-date=April 22, 2013}}</ref> The opening sentence of this essay—"We tell ourselves stories in order to live"—would become one of Didion's best-known<ref>"'We tell ourselves stories in order to live,' Didion famously wrote in ''The White Album''." Schine, Cathleen. [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/nov/24/elegy-void/ "Elegy to the Void."] ''The New York Review of Books''. Accessed November 7, 2014. </ref> sayings, and was used as the title of a [[We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live|2006 collection of Didion's nonfiction]]. |
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