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Joan Didion: Conversations and Essays

Joan Didion: Essays and Conversations Edited by G. Friedman, 1984 Introduction: Play It As It Lays shows a preoccupation with existentialism. She examines the nothingness of the void as in Sartre and Camus—particularly The Myth of Sisyphus.  Kierkegaard She does … Continue reading

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Intimate Terrorism

Intimate Terrorism Intimate Terrorism: The Deterioration of Erotic Life by Michael Vincent Miller came out in 1995, but I didn’t read it until 2011. Miller believes that men and women are trapped in an adolescent view of what intimate loving … Continue reading

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