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Secret twins? A casually brutal biography of Joan Didion and ‘soul mate’ Eve Babitz blurs ethical boundaries, but exhilarates

Lili Anolik admits her first book on Eve Babitz, Hollywood’s Eve, was a way of “driving a stake” through her subject’s heart, hoping to end her self-confessed “unbalanced, fetishistic” obsession with the bohemian LA writer.

The Conversation

The best biographies and memoirs of 2024

Salman Rushdie’s account of his near-fatal stabbing, a 360-degree view of Queen Elizabeth II and Al Pacino’s rags to riches career are among this year’s most compelling personal histories

The Guardian - UK

Joan Didion and Eve Babitz: The uneasy bond between two very different literary ‘it girls’

THE READING LIST: A new book explores the friendship and rivalry between two very different chroniclers of Sixties and Seventies Los Angeles – and shines a light upon why a new generation of readers are still obsessed with Didion and Babitz decades later, writes Katie Rosseinsky

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Eve Babitz and Joan Didion may be dead. But their feud isn’t

A new book on the Los Angeles authors leaves no petty stone unturned as it explores their fraught friendship

The Guardian - US

Didion & Babitz by Lili Anolik review –the seductress and the sphinx

This account of the purported bond between Joan Didion and Eve Babitz, two fascinating chroniclers of late 20th-century America, is titillating but diminishes both writers

The Guardian - UK

The best biographies and memoirs of 2024: Literary It-girls, art world intrigue and sociopathy

THE LIST: Catch up on 2024’s most illuminating life stories, encompassing tales of recovery, literary feuds and devastating betrayal, with Katie Rosseinsky’s edit of the best memoirs and biographies

The Independent UK

Didion & Babitz by Lili Anolik review – friendship and rivalry in LA

The journalist and author of Hollywood’s Eve makes no pretence of impartiality as she charts the difficult relationship between two chroniclers of California

The Guardian - UK

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‘A spy in the land of the privileged’: why Eve Babitz’s cult Hollywood memoir still matters 50 years on

In 70s LA, Eve Babitz partied with everyone from Salvador Dali to Jim Morrison, but she was also a trailblazing writer. As a new generation discover her work, her sister and agent celebrate her originality, ambition and lust for life

The Guardian - UK

Could The Beatles become famous today?

"The number of amazing people who could be spectacularly successful, is really, really high," Sunstein says

Salon

Best summer reads for 2024: Books to enjoy on holiday in the sunshine

Hot weather literature that’s aching to be yellowed by Ambre Solaire and spilled Pimm’s

Evening Standard

Natasha Stagg is an enjoyably unreliable narrator in ‘Artless’

Natasha Stagg’s new book ‘Artless’, a collection of stories and essays from the New York-based writer, considers our media-saturated landscape

Wallpaper

Like me, Eve Babitz was driven by corrosive relationships – and idolised women

Lust and longing turned me on to Eve Babitz – the writer who spells out that the real female equivalent of male power is not beauty but self-possession

The Guardian - UK

The book that changed me: falling for Eve Babitz's Sex and Rage

In this series, writers nominate a book that changed their life – or at least their thinking.

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