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literary culture

What was it like to be Joan Didion’s personal assistant?

John Fea   |  June 13, 2024

Here is a taste of an excerpt of Cory Leadbeater’s memoir, The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: In the fall of 2013, my days and nights were wonderful and simple. I would wake in the morning to find […]

Robert Gottlieb, RIP

John Fea   |  June 16, 2023

Last weekend I watched the documentary Turn Every Page. Here is the trailer: Before I watched his documentary I knew that Robert Gottlieb was Robert Caro’s editor and he was the editor-in-chief at Alfred A. Knopf publishing house, but that […]

Bookforum will cease publication

John Fea   |  December 14, 2022

I checked Bookforum a couple times of week to prepare for our weekly “Sunday Night Odds and Ends.” The editors didn’t cover much history, politics, or religion, but I often found something worth reading. Sad to see it go. Here […]