Lili Anolik’s dual biography of Joan Didion and Eve Babitz makes a compelling case that the literary icons weren’t just ...

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

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

That book was followed by “Blue Nights,” detailing the death of ... the staff of The New York Times Book Review. Examining Joan Didion: Since her death, Didion has become a literary subject ...

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

Joan Didion, Author, read by Barbara Caruso ... Even in raw form, Didion’s (Blue Nights) voice surpasses other writers’ in “elegance and clarity,” Nathaniel Rich astutely observes in ...

When not filming on a Hollywood set, actress Emma Roberts (Space Cadet, Maybe I Do, American Horror Story, Scream Queens) is ...

Several modern memoirs, novels and plays grapple with death in secular societies, where traditional beliefs in an afterlife or divine plan are absent. These works confront death as a final, often ...

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

Joan Didion, a literary icon who chronicled 60s ... Didion channelled her loss into the 2011 memoir Blue Nights. Shelley Wagner, her editor at Knopf, said Didion had been "a wise and subtle ...

After Trump's victory, the Latino backlash against Prop. 187 and the subsequent Democratic takeover of California looks more ...

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