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 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 ...

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 ...

An event at L.A.’s Chateau Marmont celebrated an upcoming book about Eve Babitz and Joan Didion, two writers who documented the magic of California.

I was enthralled and appalled. I was saved a lifetime of reading books like that by a neighbor who lent me Joan Didion’s “The ...