Rhode Island in Popular Culture - Other

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• John Updike's novel The Witches of Eastwick, also made into a Jack Nicholson movie, is set in Rhode Island and its early pages include a brief, acerbic description of that State.
• Jincy Willett's acclaimed novel, Winner of the National Book Award: A Novel of Fame, Honor, and Really Bad Weather, takes place during a Rhode Island hurricane.
• The Justice League of America's first headquarters was depicted in the comic books as being in a cave in the fictional district of Happy Harbor, in Rhode Island.
• The massively multiplayer online game City of Heroes is set in the fictional city of Paragon City, Rhode Island, on the state's coast overlooking the Atlantic. An expansion to the game also features another fictional Rhode Island town, Salamanca.
• The popular videogame Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem is focused around the happenings in a mansion in Rhode Island.
• Caitlín R. Kiernan's dark-fantasy novel Daughter of Hounds is set primarily in Providence, but also features such other Rhode Island locales as Woonsocket and Kingston.
• Guitar virtuoso Guthrie Govan has a song on his solo album named "Rhode Island Shred"
• The Eagles' song "The Last Resort", from their album Hotel California opens with the line "She came from Providence, the one in Rhode Island."
• Several books by young-adult author Edward Irving Wortis, better known by his pen name Avi, are set at least partially in Rhode Island. Something Upstairs, The Man Who Was Poe, and Newbery Honor book The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle are among these. Wortis himself lived in Providence until the mid-1990s.
• Keith Smith's autobiographical book Men in My Town is set in Rhode Island.
• Jodi Picoult's novel My Sister's Keeper was set in Rhode Island