Didion’s marriage was one of the most revered in American letters. But when the man who came first broke her heart, the ...
If you’ve heard of Eve Babitz, or if you’ve even read any of her books, that’s entirely because of Lili Anolik. Back in 2014, ...
A revelatory new book is as penetrating and hardboiled about the late Joan Didion as she was about others. The writing icon's ...
A new book explores the friendship and rivalry between two very different chroniclers of Sixties and Seventies Los Angeles – ...
Once Anolik completed “Hollywood’s Eve,” she hoped the book would serve as a kind of “auto-exorcism” closing the chapter on ...
Lili Anolik’s dual biography of Joan Didion and Eve Babitz makes a compelling case that the literary icons weren’t just ...
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 ...
Two literary greats, Joan Didion and Eve Babitz, were more complicated than anyone knew. Here, the secret friendship and ...
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 "Didion & Babitz," author Lili Anolik explores the complicated relationship between the frenemies and declares her ...