A Seattle theater company will be bringing Joan Didion’s gorgeous memoir of grief, The Year of Magical Thinking, to the stage this summer, according to Misha Berson for The Seattle… Read more »

Joan Didion has called the work of Bob Woodward–whose expose of the Trump administration, Fear, appeared last week–”political pornography.” By this she meant it was a reductive (if gratifying on… Read more »

On Friday, Netflix began streaming “The Center Will Not Hold,” the long-awaited documentary about Joan Didion directed by her nephew Griffin Dunne. “It was always going to be a love… Read more »

The publishing industry has a tendency to melt its most sacred proper nouns down into tiny silver adjectival balls, put a quarter in the machine, pull the spring, and just let ’em… Read more »

A long time ago, at an imprint not so far away… On Friday, a release posted to Starwars.com revealed a forthcoming anthology from Del Ray Books, Ballantine’s sci-fi imprint. Called… Read more »

Joan Didion famously wrote: We tell ourselves stories in order to live … We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder… Read more »

Ten dollars. No, you goon! TWENTY TWO MILLION. Publishing projects were the third most common projects funded on Kickstarter in 2014, reported by Charlotte Eyre of The Bookseller. There were fewer… Read more »

Everyone is breathless about the ads designed by Phoebe Philo for French fashion label Céline. That’s because they feature the literary legend Joan Didion as the cover girl. “We can die… Read more »

Kickstarter is a powerful website, and its awesome crowdfunding power has, on occasion, been deployed toward some pretty odd ends. But for every Missy Elliott-themed tracksuit and Ron Paul-themed video game… Read more »

The publishing industry has many unsung heroes, but some of the most unsung, and the most heroic, are the people that have to come up with titles of political memoirs.… Read more »