Why ‘Didion & Babitz’ author warns readers: Don’t be a baby
6 days ago · 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...
'Didion & Babitz' explores the unlikely bond between two L.A.
6 days ago · Lili Anolik turns a cache of letters between Joan Didion and Eve Babitz into a book about the unlikely friendship between two seminal L.A. writers before they went their separate ways.
Lili Anolik’s “Didion & Babitz,” a look at two iconic Californians ...
3 days ago · November 15, 2024 at 11:00 a.m. EST. “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 & Babitz' review: Book about Eve Babitz throws shade on ...
Nov 11, 2024 · In 2019. Vanity Fair contributing editor Lili Anolik published “Hollywood’s Eve.” The biography, based on an earlier article in the magazine, helped revive interest in Eve Babitz, a loose, libidinous artist and writer who chronicled Hollywood’s celebrity …
Joan Didion: New Biography Explores the Writer's Life
Nov 12, 2024 · Lili Anolik, who’s unearthed Eve Babitz and exposed Donna Tartt, now strips the sentiment which has gathered around one of Hollywood’s most beloved writers: “Joan was often telling the truth...
Book Review: ‘Didion & Babitz,’ by Lili Anolik - The New York Times
Nov 10, 2024 · For all they had in common, the book never quite paints them as the “secret twins” and “soul mates” the author would like us to think they are. In one of many direct asides to the reader ...
Why Gossip Is Fatal to Good Writing - The Atlantic
Nov 11, 2024 · Lili Anolik’s new book, Didion and Babitz, a dishy gloss on the pair, purports to be interested in pushing past persona and performance to find the truth, the humans underneath.
Literary Darlings Eve Babitz and Joan Didion Had a Hidden ...
Nov 6, 2024 · In her latest book, author Lili Anolik is sharing everything she learned from unearthing a trove of letters in Babitz's home.
Were Joan Didion and Eve Babitz really two sides of the same coin ...
Nov 8, 2024 · Anolik tries to make the case that Babitz and Didion — who died about a week apart in 2021 — are yin and yang, two sides to the same coin, thus the thesis for her riveting book. My takeaway ...
Lili Anolik on icons Didion and Babitz - The Boston Globe
Nov 6, 2024 · Lili Anolik and the cover to her book “Didion & Babitz.” Simon & Schuster/Lili Anolik. In 2010, Lili Anolik first read Eve Babitz. She was hooked. At that time, the LA-born Babitz —...