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"
A revelatory new book is as penetrating and hardboiled about the late Joan Didion as she was about others. The writing icon's acclaimed career was in key part defined by living in, working with and writing about Hollywood.
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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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.
Letters of a Literary Titan Read by Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Emma Roberts and More
An event at L.A.’s Chateau Marmont celebrated an upcoming book about Eve Babitz and Joan Didion, two writers who documented ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Book Review: A new book about cult favorite Eve Babitz throws shade on reputation of Joan Didion
The same, alas, cannot be said of Eve Babitz, a Hollywood bad girl whose life briefly intersected with Didion’s in the ...
Emma Roberts, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Beverly D’Angelo, and More Celebrate Didion & Babitz
The exclusive event included a reading of Babitz’s unsent letters by those A-list actors and the book’s author herself, Lili ...
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Emma Roberts, Elizabeth Olsen, Nicole Richie and More Celebrate ‘Didion and Babitz’ Book Release
Hollywood actresses took turns reading previously unpublished letters penned by the late Eve Babitz to others, including Joan ...
Emma Roberts Attends ‘Didion & Babitz’ Book Launch Party Wearing Stylish Gray Mule Heels
Emma Roberts attended the book launch party for Lili Anolik’s biography “Didion & Babitz” in Los Angeles on Nov. 12 wearing a ...