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 ...

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

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

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

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

Cool Girl” writers like Joan Didion and Eve Babitz have been endlessly marketed to women. But what truths might men learn about women—and themselves—from these books?

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