A meditation on the death of a beloved grandparent and a partner in the space of a single weekend that is also an ode to Delhi ...

One of the scariest things I’ve ever done is read my diary out loud to a room full of strangers. Perhaps that says more about the kind of soft-handed life I’ve ...

The Las Vegas Strip, pictured in 1975, around the time John Gregory Dunne went to live there - Getty But Dunne’s life had almost ended 30 years prior, if Vegas, a superb quasi-memoir that has been ...

It’s a bit awkward to give a “best of” accolade to a book when you’re not entirely sure it should exist. There were only a few months between the announcement that a folder of journal entries had been ...

Reading "Notes to John", Joan Didion's posthumously published book of post-therapy jottings, left me "feeling a little grubby at being privy to such an intrusion", said Catherine Jarvie in The i Paper ...

Reading the newly released “Notes to John,” it’s hard not to wonder how the late author Joan Didion would feel about having her personal notes from a series of painful therapy sessions converted into ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Knopf publisher Jordan Pavlin and Shelley Wanger, Joan Didion's longtime editor and one of her literary trustees, about the new book "Notes to John." JOAN DIDION: ...

JOAN DIDION: (Reading) Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner, and life as you know it ends. The question of self-pity. SCOTT DETROW, HOST: Those four short lines, read ...