Didion & Babitz
Anolik, Lili2025
Book
Eve Babitz died on December 17th, 2021. Found in the wrack, ruin and filth of her apartment, a stack of boxes packed by her mother decades before. Inside, a lost world, centred on a two-story rental in a down-at-heel section of Hollywood in the sixties and seventies. Didion and Babitz formed a complicated alliance, a friendship that went bad, amity turning to enmity. With deftness and skill, journalist Lili Anolik uses Babitz, Babitz's brilliance of observation, Babitz's incisive intelligence and, most of all, Babitz's diary-like letters - letters found in those sealed boxes, letters so intimate you don't read them so much as breathe them - as the key to unlocking Didion.
Main title:
Didion & Babitz / Lili Anolik.
Author:
Anolik, Lili, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Atlantic Books, 2025.
Collation:
352 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781805463948 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.54813.54 DID813.54 ANO
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
4022348