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: ...

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 ...

If you want to take great book notes and remember what you read, then try this method. It focuses on creating outlines as if you were going to teach the material to a beginner. This technique, which I ...

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 ...

The new book will be the renowned author's seventh publication. Adichie unveiled 'Notes on Grief' on her social media handles with news that it is already available to readers in the United Kingdom ...

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 ...

Sanora Babb’s interviews about the Dust Bowl informed “The Grapes of Wrath.” The book’s success led to the cancellation of her own book contract. “Riding Like the Wind” tells her life story. By Robert ...

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 ...

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 ...