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

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

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

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

The exclusive event included a reading of Babitz’s unsent letters by those A-list actors and the book’s author herself, Lili ...

Hollywood actresses took turns reading previously unpublished letters penned by the late Eve Babitz to others, including Joan ...

And for about 60 pages, as Anolik recalls her first encounter with Eve Babitz’s work — a random ... Harrison Ford and Steve Martin (who gave her a Volkswagen) — all on the cusp of fame.

The same, alas, cannot be said of Eve Babitz, a Hollywood bad girl whose life briefly intersected with Didion’s in the late 1960s and early ’70s. Few writers, of course, have the stature of ...