Regards : The Selected Nonfiction of John Gregory Dunne

by Dunne, John Gregory

• ISBN13: 9781560258162
• ISBN10: 1560258160
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-20
• Publisher: Da Capo Pr

Summary

No writer captured the tragic absurdity of late-twentieth-century America better than John Gregory Dunne. Whether novels, screenplays, or nonfiction, his work was marked with a droll wit and a long view that illuminated buried aspects of public and private life in Hollywood and America at large.

Author Biography

John Gregory Dunne was the author of six novels—Vegas; True Confessions; Dutch Shea, Jr.; The Red White and Blue; Playland; and Nothing Lost—and seven works of nonfiction, among which are the memoir-like Harp and two books that look at Hollywood, The Studio and Monster. Born in West Hartford, Connecticut, in 1932, he graduated from Princeton in 1954. He collaborated with his wife, the writer Joan Didion, on many screenplays, including Panic in Needle Park and True Confessions. John Gregory Dunne died in December 2003.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD by Calvin Trillin	VII
GONE HOLLYWOOD
SNEAK	3	(14)
TINSEL	17	(20)
GONE HOLLYWOOD	37	(6)
HESSIANS	43	(12)
DEALING	55	(10)
HOLLYWOOD: OPENING MOVES	65	(18)
AN AMERICAN EDUCATION
QUEBEC ZERO	83	(6)
INDUCTION DAY	89	(6)
MEMENTO DELANO	95	(20)
ON THE KENNEDYS	115	(12)
AN AMERICAN EDUCATION	127	(26)
TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A.	153	(16)
THE SIMPSONS	169	(24)
STAR
BUCK	193	(14)
"POET OF RESENTMENT"	207	(16)
BIRTH OF A SALESMAN	223	(14)
STAR!	237	(14)
CRITICAL
PAULINE	251	(8)
CRITICAL	259	(8)
A STAR IS BORN	267	(14)
YOUR TIME IS MY TIME	281	(24)
DEATH OF A YALE MAN	305	(20)
REGARDS
QUINTANA	325	(8)
FRACTURES	333	(6)
MEMORIES OF A LEFT FIELDER	339	(8)
EUREKA!	347	(20)
REGARDS	367	(6)
LAYING PIPE	373	(8)
CODA
THE PARIS REVIEW INTERVIEW	381