A new book explores the friendship and rivalry between two very different chroniclers of Sixties and Seventies Los Angeles – ...

Didion’s marriage was one of the most revered in American letters. But when the man who came first broke her heart, the ...

Lili Anolik, who’s unearthed Eve Babitz and exposed Donna Tartt, now strips the sentiment which has gathered around one of ...

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

Two literary greats, Joan Didion and Eve Babitz, were more complicated than anyone knew. Here, the secret friendship and ...

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

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

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

In "Didion & Babitz," author Lili Anolik explores the complicated relationship between the frenemies and declares her ...

I was enthralled and appalled. I was saved a lifetime of reading books like that by a neighbor who lent me Joan Didion’s “The ...