Scenes are whole worlds, but worlds need creation myths, and Anolik has made a career out of writing those creation myths.

Scenes are whole worlds, but worlds need creation myths, and Anolik has made a career out of writing those creation myths.

And a decade later, after watching authors tirelessly self-market online, I find myself wishing that writers still had the ...

Lili Anolik’s “Didion & Babitz” is a sparkling and ardent look at the conflicting sensibilities of two iconic Californians ...

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

Roberts founded the online reading community/book club Belletrist, which picked “Didion and Babitz” as its November read. For ...

The exclusive event included a reading of Babitz’s unsent letters by those A-list actors and the book’s author herself, Lili ...

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

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

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