Eve Babitz, Joan Didion

Searching for the Ghosts of Joan Didion, Eve Babitz, and Old-Hollywood Glamour at the Chateau Marmont
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 Kondo, “I love mess,” and said mess is all the more intriguing to me when it involves two extremely wry and fabulous West Coats writers.
How Joan Didion & Eve Babitz’s Love-Hate Relationship Shaped L.A. Literature
In ‘Didion & Babitz,’ journalist Lili Anolik unpacks the volatile yet symbiotic relationship between two literary icons.
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Were Joan Didion and Eve Babitz really two sides of the same coin?
Once Anolik completed “Hollywood’s Eve,” she hoped the book would serve as a kind of “auto-exorcism” closing the chapter on her decades-long obsession with an L.A. icon. But Didion, ever a powerful influence, brought Anolik back.
Are You More Joan Didion or Eve Babitz?
In the Literary It-girl universe, there is no larger chasm than that between Joan Didion acolytes and Eve Babitz fanatics. Which one are you?
Joan Didion Biographer Is as Unsparing as She Was: "I'm Just Trying to See Her Plain"
A revelatory new book is as penetrating and hardboiled about the late Joan Didion as she was about others. The writing icon's acclaimed career was in key part defined by living in, working with and writing about Hollywood.
When Joan and Eve were pals: ‘Didion & Babitz’ explores the unlikely bond between two seminal L.A. writers
Lili Anolik turns a cache of letters between Joan Didion and Eve Babitz into a book about the unlikely friendship between two seminal L.A. writers before they went their separate ways.
The Unglamourous Beginnings of Joan Didion’s Hollywood Life
In an excerpt from her new book, ‘Didion and Babitz’, the writer Lili Anolik tells the story of Joan Didion’s first years in ...
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Book Review: A new book about cult favorite Eve Babitz throws shade on reputation of Joan Didion
Besides, Joan is somebody I naturally root against ... The two women met in 1967 when Didion and her husband, John ...