Hers was a celebrated literary life, set in and around Hollywood, where she was the queen of witty, uber-cool fiction. But a new book, ‘Notes to John’, which documents her most intimate therapy ...

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 ...

"Notes to John" is an intimate collection of journal writings from Joan Didion. Listen to an audio clip of the book narrated by Julianne Moore.

The question haunting Joan Didion's 'Notes to John' is whether such a private person would have wanted her intimate, unedited ...

[Read: Joan Didion’s magic trick] More than direct, Notes to John is naked, unadorned. It’s Didion but “unprecedentedly intimate,” just as the copy on the book jacket promises. Implicit in ...

Reading Joan Didion’s posthumously published new book feels like eavesdropping on private marital conversations. It’s ...

“Most of us have a Joan Didion origin story, the article or book, or photograph or quote that first made us want to know more about this quiet oracle,” Evelyn McDonell begins. She mentions one of an ...

Knopf Publishing Company released “Notes to John,” a posthumous collection of journal entries Joan Didion wrote after ...

Reading Notes to John, a new and much-discussed posthumous selection of Joan Didion’s writing, I thought over and over of this image: my grandma’s bare face, the nervous way she clasped her robe. The ...