Lili Anolik, who’s unearthed Eve Babitz and exposed Donna Tartt, now strips the sentiment which has gathered around one of ...

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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Letters. Lots of letters.” Thus began Anolik’s trip back into Babitz’s past via a large cache of correspondence that revealed ...

An entire generation of literary-minded women has not stopped telling itself stories influenced by master storyteller Joan ...

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

Once Anolik completed “Hollywood’s Eve,” she hoped the book would serve as a kind of “auto-exorcism” closing the chapter on ...

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

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

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

In an excerpt from her new book, ‘Didion and Babitz’, the writer Lili Anolik tells the story of Joan Didion’s first years in ...