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Hardcover We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine Book

ISBN: 1324092610

ISBN13: 9781324092612

We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine

Joan Didion opened The White Album (1979) with what would become one of the most iconic lines in American literature: "We tell ourselves stories in order to live." Today, this phrase is deployed inspirationally, printed on T-shirts and posters, used as a battle cry for artists and writers. In truth, Didion was describing something much less rosy: our human tendency to manufacture delusions that might ward away our anxieties when society seems to...

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Releases Mar 11, 2025

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