The Original Lit Girls Are Still Influencing What We Wear
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 ...
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The Unglamourous Beginnings of Joan Didion’s Hollywood Life
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.
Book Review: A new book about cult favorite Eve Babitz throws shade on reputation of Joan Didion
In 2019. Vanity Fair contributing editor Lili Anolik published “Hollywood’s Eve.” The biography, based on an earlier article ...
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Were Joan Didion and Eve Babitz really two sides of the same coin?
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 ...