JOAN DIDION: 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 there by ...

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If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. The book, out April 22, compiles Didion’s journal entries about her experience in psychiatry Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial ...

Zell Visiting Writer Christina Sharpe reads from her book, “Ordinary Notes,” in the UMMA Stern Auditorium Thursday evening. Christina Sharpe speaks into a microphone on a wooden podium. Julianne ...

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 ...

In the 37 years that I knew my grandmother, I could count on one hand the number of times I saw her without her makeup on. Celebrated for her beauty in her teenage years and beyond, my grandma took ...

There is a rule at our house. For every book we keep, one has to go. So, many books are given away -- to friends or free little libraries; or boxed up for charity. It gets easier, but it never gets ...

About midway through Christine Murphy’s debut novel, “Notes on Surviving the Fire,” her protagonist, Sarah Common, tells a guy she’s dating that rape-revenge movies don’t work. “Action movies are man ...

John Milton is widely considered to be one of the greatest English poets who ever lived—just ask such luminaries as John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Samuel Jonson, and Voltaire, who once declared, "Milton ...

Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne met in the late fifties, when she was working at Vogue and he at Time. They married in 1964, and in 1966 they adopted a baby girl, giving her a name from the Yucatán ...