Lili Anolik’s “Didion & Babitz” is a sparkling and ardent look at the conflicting sensibilities of two iconic Californians ...

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

Scenes are whole worlds, but worlds need creation myths, and Anolik has made a career out of writing those creation myths.

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

You’d be hard-pressed to find a person (well, maybe besides Ryan Murphy) who loves a feud more than I do. To quote Marie ...

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

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

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

A new book compares the authors and frenemies Joan Didion and Eve Babitz, but its fixation on their rivalry obscures the ...

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

“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 ...