Julianne Moore to Narrate Audiobook of Joan Didion’s Posthumous Notes to John

Julianne Moore will lend her voice to Joan Didion’s latest project.

The Academy Award-winning actress, 64, will narrate the audiobook of Notes to John, a new posthumous book from the acclaimed writer, forthcoming in April 2025.

Notes to John compiles journal entries kept by Didion, who died in 2021 at age 87. The entries were written as letters to Didion’s husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, and described the psychiatry sessions she attended beginning in 1999 after her family experienced “a rough few years,” per the book’s synopsis.

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Over the course of several months, Didion wrote meticulously of the sessions, which covered topics like alcoholism, anxiety and her complicated relationship with her daughter, Quintana. Eventually, the discussions turned to author’s prolific career — Didion wrote several books, including the famed essay collections Slouching Toward Bethlehem (1968) and The White Album (1979), as well as the National Book Award-winning memoir The Year of Magical Thinking, about Dunne’s sudden death in 2003. Didion also wrote of the complexities of her childhood, and her own legacy, in her journals.

“Everything we revere about Joan Didion is instantly apparent in these pages — the precision, the fierce intelligence, the piercing insights, the withering interrogation of her own motives,” Knopf editor-in-chief Jordan Pavlin previously said in a statement.

“Yet this is also Joan Didion as we have never seen her before — open, vulnerable, wrestling with raw emotion,” Pavlin continued. “Notes to John is an extraordinarily intimate record of a painful and courageous journey in the life of one of the greatest writers of our time.”

Moore, who recently starred in films like The Room Next Door and May December, previously lent her voice to the audiobooks for Day by Michael Cunningham, Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders and One More Thing by B.J. Novak, among others.

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Moore is also the author of several children’s books, including the Freckleface Strawberry series and the picture book My Mom Is a Foreigner, But Not to Me.

Notes to John will be published on April 22 through Knopf and is now available for preorder, wherever books are sold.