We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live
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We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction is a 2006 collection of nonfiction by Joan Didion. It includes the full content of her first seven volumes of nonfiction: Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album, Salvador, Miami, After Henry, Political Fictions, and Where I Was From. The volume includes an introduction by John Leonard. The title is taken form the opening line of her essay The White Album in the book of the same name.
