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 ...

In 2019. Vanity Fair contributing editor Lili Anolik published “Hollywood’s Eve.” The biography, based on an earlier article ...

“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 ...

When I first cracked open Lili Anolik’s dazzling and provocative “Didion & Babitz ... Eve’s archives. Anolik hopped a plane from New York to California the next morning. Read more: Op-Ed ...

After Eve Babitz—the late Los Angeles hedonist, visual artist, and author of 1977’s Slow Days, Fast Company—moved into an assisted living facility in 2021, a box of drafts, diary entries ...

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 ...

But while their social and professional circles overlapped in Hollywood and beyond, Didion and Babitz had little else in common. In fact, in the dedication of Eve’s Hollywood, Babitz wrote of ...