The Projectionist's Lending Library

09. Joan Didion and PLAY IT AS IT LAYS


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In this episode we take a trip to midcentury California and into the lives of the bored and desperate. It's Play it as it Lays by Joan Didion.

This movie is not easy to find, but it is on YouTube.

Youtube Videos:

The American Experience as told by Joan Didion (2003) (Source of our first intersegment bumper)

Joan Didion, 1971.

Katarzyna Nowak McNeice - "Joan Didion’s California and the Melancholic American Identity"


Further Reading

Daugherty, Tracy. The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion. St. Martin's, 2015.

Nowak-McNeice, Katarzyna. California and the Melancholic American Identity in Joan Didion's Novels. Routledge, 2019.

Vandenberg, Kathleen M. Joan Didion: Substance and Style. SUNY 2021.

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