Pizza Hut’s Book It! literacy program, founded in 1984, has reached more than 70 million students — and counts the radio host Charlamagne Tha God among its fans.
The actor and foodie admired the Nobel Prize winner’s “Alisse at the Fire,” with “Septology” up next. His own new book is “What I Ate in One Year (and Related Thoughts).”
“I Heard You Paint Houses,” his true-crime best seller about the death of Jimmy Hoffa, was brought to the screen by Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro.
His Pulitzer Prize-nominated history of the war was warmly received by the Pentagon, but rejected elsewhere for ignoring what many said made the war “unwinnable.”
Three new books make the case for music as medicine. In “The Schubert Treatment,” the most lyrical of the trio, a cellist takes us bedside with the sick and the dying.
Since her death, Didion has become a literary subject as popular for her image and writing as for the fascination she inspired for almost half a century.