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Joan Didion

Memoirs are the New Novel: Here's to Life with Sudden Death

Elizabeth Benedict | Posted 12.14.2009 | Books

Read More: Alison Bechdel, Harvard, Joan Didion, Memoir, Dave Eggers, Mentors, Health Care, Books News
Elizabeth Benedict

It's a compelling story, but it's Downing's intelligence, his bone-dry wit, his carefully measured sorrow, carefully controlled rage, and beautifully wrought prose that make this memoir such a standout.

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My Failure at SEO: A Writer's Confession about Internet Marketing: Or, Why You Probably Won't Find Me Easily Online

Tamar Chansky | Posted 10.28.2009 | Technology

Read More: Google, Joan Didion, Internet, Writers, Marketing, Malcolm Gladwell, Ann Beattie, Seo, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Pr, Key Words, Technology News
Tamar Chansky

SEO is stealth, it's sleek; it's all about titles that are short, searchable and to the point. It doesn't cater to the clever book title or site name, it could care less about how erudite you are.

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Hanging with Motherhood Writer-Director Katherine Dieckmann

Thelma Adams | Posted 10.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Manhattan, Women, Women in Film, Mothers and Sons, Motherhood, Uma Thurman, Parenting, Mothers and Daughters, Screenwriting, Parenthood, Punk, Screenwriters, Mike-Leigh, Katherine Dieckmann, Joan Didion, Women Directors, Working Moms, Entertainment News
Thelma Adams

I was frustrated by the absence of movies where a mother is the lead and her issues are the film's main focus, where she is a significant character expressing her soul and existence.

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Dick Cheney: The Quintessential Villain of the American West

Nathan Hegedus | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Joan Didion, Big Oil, Railroads, Big Coal, Halliburton, George W. Bush, Westerns, Native Americans, Wyoming, Torture, Dick Cheney, Old West, Republicans, Gop, Politics News
Nathan Hegedus

Sadly, in both the Old West and the new West, the big boys in the smoke-filled rooms always need a Dick Cheney.

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A Writer, A Doctor, And A New Radical

Julia Moulden | Posted 06.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Medicins Sans Frontieres, Joan Didion, Doctors Without Borders, Africa, Charity, James Maskalyk, New Radicals, Sudan, Careers, The Giving Life, Living News
Julia Moulden

4:00pm, Thursday. I am on my back on my couch, encouraging the muscles that run between my frozen shoulder and my vertebrae to relax. Everything is in...

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Dominick Dunne (1925-2009): A Lovely Man Who Took No Prisoners -- Starting with Himself

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 08.26.2009 | Media

Read More: Griffin Dunne, Joan Didion, Frank Sinatra, Liz Smith, Tina Brown, Dominick Dunne, Dominick Dunne: After the Party, Vanity Fair, Oregon, Media News
Jesse Kornbluth

The story is no puzzle -- if Dunne's account is remotely accurate, the recipe for early success and midlife failure was developed at home.

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Let's Bring Back...Part VI

Lesley M. M. Blume | Posted 06.13.2008 | Living

Read More: Let's Bring Back, Woody Allen, Living News, Manolo Blahnik, Romance, Nostalgia, Joan Didion, Sex and the City, Gloria Steinem, Weddings, Style, Living News
Lesley M. M. Blume

Ladies and Gentlemen: With great pleasure, I present the sixth installment of my Let's Bring Back series. A quiet homage to Vogue legend Diana Vreel...

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Norman Mailer Remembered In Massive Carnegie Hall Memorial

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 04.18.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Norman Mailer, Norman Mailer Memorial, Tina Brown, Charlie Rose, Joan Didion, Sean Penn, Entertainment News

NEW YORK — You need a big block of time, and space, to say goodbye to Norman Mailer. More than 2,000 mourners filled Carnegie Hall to near capa...

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