DIDION & BABITZ

By Lili Anolik
Published by: Scribner | November 12, 2024
Hardcover | 352 pages | 6 x 9 in
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1668065488
Condition: Brand New

In Didion and Babitz, journalist Lili Anolik delivers a dazzling and provocative dual biography that reads with the propulsion of a novel. At its center: two of the most compelling literary figures of Los Angeles in the 20th century Joan Didion and Eve Babitz.

Uncovering a lost archive of letters sealed away for decades, Anolik reconstructs a world centered around 7406 Franklin Avenue, a Hollywood house that hosted rock stars, artists, drifters, and the two women at the core of this electrifying story. Joan Didion mysterious behind her dark glasses, cerebral, and distant. Eve Babitz ferociously sensual, uninhibited, and scorching with life.

Told through Babitz’s unreleased letters and razor-sharp insights, this book offers a radical lens on Didion’s life and work, revealing a hidden intimacy and rivalry between these cultural titans. A biography, a love letter, and a portrait of California glamour and ruin, Didion and Babitz is an essential read for fans of either writer or both.