It's certainly possible that my own 20 years of teaching college writing perfectly primed me to fall in love with this film about legendary literary editor Robert Gottlieb and equally legendary writer Robert Caro, but I absolutely ate it up. Every single minute of it. And while my favorite part of the film--Gottlieb and Caro's passionate, longstanding argument about the proper use of semicolons -- may not be everyone's,  Turn Every Page is one of those engrossing, humorous, and irresistibly winsome docs about fascinating people, and it will especially delight anyone who loves books and who rejoices in the intellectual, emotional, and political impact books can have and in the communities that form around them.

Directed, quite charmingly personably, by Robert Gottlieb's daughter, Lizzie Gottlieb (who had to cajole both her father and Robert Caro into being in the film at all), Turn Every Page traces the stunning accomplishments of both Gottlieb and Caro and explores the significance of their vibrant relationship and, more generally, of the often intense and warmly vital relationship between all writers and editors.

Gottlieb has been the editor for such literary publishing giants as Simon & Schuster and Alfred A. Knopf and he was also editor, at one point, of The New Yorker. He was the editor for such writers as Toni Morrison, Joseph Heller (whose Catch-22Gottlieb first recognized as great), John Cheever, Doris Lessing, Salman Rushdie, John le Carre, Ray Bradbury, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, and Michael Crichton. And it is, quite simply, pure joy to hear him speak of his work with such immense talents.

Caro, as a journalist and writer, is equally captivating, and his first book, The Power Broker, a biography of Robert Moses, who was responsible for the structure of the city of New York (and, thus, of its power differentials), took the political and reading world by storm, and has since spent his life writing about Lyndon B. Johnson, the national figure who, arguably, like Robert Moses, changed the shape of power, but on the broader national scale.

The film also includes wonderful interviews with the likes of Ethan Hawke, Conan O'Brien, and many major figures whose lives and minds have been shaken and challenged by the collective work of Caro and Gottlieb, and their testimonies to the work of these two are a reminder of just how interconnected we all are when we are immersed in the world of reading. There are few things as communally satisfying as talking with others who love the same book (unless it’s perhaps a shared love of cinema!), and this film celebrates and feeds that satisfaction beautifully.