Lili Anolik turns a cache of letters between Joan Didion and Eve Babitz into a book about the unlikely friendship between two ...

Eve Babitz’s love for Los Angeles was pathological ... the kind of embrace where you have to stick pins in them too. Ed [Ruscha] was one of the first guys that she dated in the art world.

The same, alas, cannot be said of Eve Babitz, a Hollywood bad girl whose life briefly intersected with Didion’s in the late 1960s and early ’70s. Few writers, of course, have the stature of ...

Babitz’s sister, Mirandi, had summoned Anolik to Eve's apartment ... s Beanery with the emergent artists of the decade — Ed Ruscha, Billy Al Bengston, Larry Bell — and famously posed ...