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 ...

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

Didion has become, in recent decades, a fashion icon, the ultimate literary It Girl, a model for a 1989 Gap ad, and a face of Celine’s 2015 eyewear campaign. Her influence is likewise apparent in ...

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

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

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

JOAN DIDION and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, came to L.A. from New York in the summer of 1964. Both had worked as journalists. (She for Vogue; he for Time.) Both wanted to write books.

Babitz’s prose stood in stark contrast to that of her friend and contemporary Joan Didion. Didion’s is cool and analytical, like the image she carefully cultivated, turning a skeptic’s gaze ...

In 2019. Vanity Fair contributing editor Lili Anolik published “Hollywood’s Eve.” The biography, based on an earlier article ...

“With a girl like Joan Didion, you just don’t tell her what ... the ultimate literary It Girl, a model for a 1989 Gap ad, and ...

An entire generation of literary-minded women has not stopped telling itself stories influenced by master storyteller Joan Didion. The same, alas, cannot be said of Eve Babitz, a Hollywood bad ...