Joan Didion, Eve Babitz

Searching for the Ghosts of Joan Didion, Eve Babitz, and Old-Hollywood Glamour at the Chateau Marmont
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 Kondo, “I love mess,” and said mess is all the more intriguing to me when it involves two extremely wry and fabulous West Coats writers.
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.
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,
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.
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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?

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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 ...
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
An entire generation of literary-minded women has not stopped telling itself stories influenced by master storyteller Joan ...
Literary Assassin
Babitz is now a cultural heroine as well as a literary, same as Didion. What she stands for is pleasure, polymorphous and ...