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

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 ...

“Didion & Babitz” is the deceptively staid title of Lili Anolik’s sparkling new book about the literary doyennes of 1970s Hollywood, the writers Joan Didion and Eve Babitz. It is not exactly ...

Joan Didion, on the other hand, regularly took Hollywood’s loot. After spending seven years at Vogue, she wrote her first novel Run, River, published in 1963, before moving to LA and having a ...

In “Didion & Babitz,” author Lili Anolik opens with some advice: “Reader, Don’t be a baby.” It’s an apt warning for readers who might consider themselves Joan Didion and/or Eve Babitz ...

An event at L.A.’s Chateau Marmont celebrated an upcoming book about Eve Babitz and Joan Didion, two writers who documented the magic of California. Karah Preiss and Emma Roberts were among the ...

Eve Babitz, the “dowager groupie” who wrote Slow Days, Fast Company and was known for her relationships with the likes of The Doors’ frontman Jim Morrison and Steve Martin, and Joan Didion ...

In “Didion & Babitz,” author Lili Anolik opens with some advice: “Reader, Don’t be a baby.” It’s an apt warning for readers who might consider themselves Joan Didion and/or Eve Babitz aficionados.