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Joan Didion, Eve Babitz

Hollywood Reporter on MSN · 1d

Joan Didion Biographer Is as Unsparing as She Was: “I’m Just Trying to See Her Plain”

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 about herself,

Los Angeles Times · 6d

Were Joan Didion and Eve Babitz really two sides of the same coin?

Once Anolik completed “Hollywood’s Eve,” she hoped the book would serve as a kind of “auto-exorcism” closing the chapter on her decades-long obsession with an L.A. icon. But Didion, ever a powerful influence, brought Anolik back.

Are You More Joan Didion or Eve Babitz?

In the Literary It-girl universe, there is no larger chasm than that between Joan Didion acolytes and Eve Babitz fanatics. Which one are you?

W magazine · 1d

How Joan Didion & Eve Babitz’s Love-Hate Relationship Shaped L.A. Literature

In ‘Didion & Babitz,’ journalist Lili Anolik unpacks the volatile yet symbiotic relationship between two literary icons.

Los Angeles Times · 2d

When Joan and Eve were pals: ‘Didion & Babitz’ explores the unlikely bond between two seminal L.A. writers

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.

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Letters of a Literary Titan Read by Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Emma Roberts and More

An event at L.A.’s Chateau Marmont celebrated an upcoming book about Eve Babitz and Joan Didion, two writers who documented ...

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Why ‘Didion & Babitz’ author warns readers: Don’t be a baby

Lili Anolik’s dual biography of Joan Didion and Eve Babitz makes a compelling case that the literary icons weren’t just ...

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Didion and Babitz

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Didion & Babitz: How Two Of LA's Finest Writers Handled Hollywood

Eve Babitz, the "dowager groupie" who wrote Slow Days, Fast Company and was known for her relationships with the likes of The ...

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Book Review: A new book about cult favorite Eve Babitz throws shade on reputation of Joan Didion

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

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Emma Roberts, Elizabeth Olsen, Nicole Richie and More Celebrate ‘Didion and Babitz’ Book Release

Hollywood actresses took turns reading previously unpublished letters penned by the late Eve Babitz to others, including Joan ...

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Literary Assassin

Babitz is now a cultural heroine as well as a literary, same as Didion. What she stands for is pleasure, polymorphous and ...

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