Creative Nonfiction (Course Guide / Lisa Heise)

Didion is often classed with the New Journalists of the 1960s, a nonaffiliated group of writers who emphasized the necessary subjectivity of their reporting....Didion's recent work is framed by a succession of personal losses. Didion won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2005 for The Year of Magical Thinking, a memoir examining her grief at her husband's death and her daughter's critical illness. Reviews of The Year of Magical Thinking have centered on the attending social worker's description of Didion as a “pretty cool customer” in the immediate moments after her husband's death—a survival mechanism .. | from Encyclopedia of American Literature | Credo Reference (Library Database)

A biography about American essayist and novelist, Joan Didion. Topics include Didion's personal background and education, an analysis of her literary works including the themes, style and characters, and summaries of her literary works including "Slouching Towards Bethlehem," "Play It As It Lays" and "A Book of Common Prayer." | Critical Survey of American Literature. 12/1/2016, p736-746. | Literary Reference Center Plus (EBSCO) (Library Database)

PDF Link. An excerpt from the article ""Goodbye to All That." --- "It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends. I can remember now, with a clarity that makes the nerves in the back of my neck constrict, when New York began for me, but I cannot lay my finger upon the moment it ended, can never cut through the ambiguities and second starts and broken resolves to the exact place on the page where the heroine is no longer as optimistic as she once was." | Lapham's Quarterly. Summer2014, Vol. 7 Issue 3, p200-205. 6p | Academic Search Premier (EBSCO). (Library Database)

An excerpt from the report titled "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" by Joan Didion, published in the periodical on September 23, 1967 is presented, discussing the youth culture of San Francisco, California in 1967; the aimlessness and despair among the people; and the social activities there. (PDF link includes photos) | Saturday Evening Post. Jul/Aug2017, Vol. 289 Issue 4, | MasterFILE Complete (Library Database)

A reprint of the article "Everywoman.com," published in the February 21 and 28, 2000 of "New Yorker," is presented, which focuses on "The Web Guide to Martha Stewart-The Unofficial Site" created by Kerry Ogata. Topics includes a brief background on the life of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia chairman Martha Stewart according to the site, the opinions of site contributors about the defection of Martha's husband Andy and the success of an initial public offering launched by the firm. New Yorker. 9/6/2021, Vol. 97 Issue 27, p68-73. 6p. | Literature Reference Center Plus (Library Database)