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November's best new books, from Rosalie Ham's latest novel to a stranger-than-fiction memoir from Lech Blaine
3 weeks, 3 days ago

November's best new books, from Rosalie Ham's latest novel to a stranger-than-fiction memoir from Lech Blaine

ABC  

As summer holidays steadily approach, the pile of bedside books you'll need to see you through isn't going to grow itself. Take note of these new releases our group of critics — The Bookshelf's Kate Evans, The Book Show's Sarah L'Estrange, ABC Arts' Katherine Smyrk and writer Declan Fry — have tucked into this month. Including new Rosalie Ham fiction, …

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Joan Didion and Eve Babitz: The complicated relationship between two very different literary ‘it girls’
1 month ago

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

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Indeed, in the name drop-heavy dedication for Eve’s Hollywood, Babitz thanked the Didion-Dunnes for “having …

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When Joan and Eve were pals: ‘Didion & Babitz’ explores the unlikely bond between two seminal L.A. writers
1 month, 1 week ago

When Joan and Eve were pals: ‘Didion & Babitz’ explores the unlikely bond between two seminal L.A. writers

LA Times  

On the Shelf 'Didion & Babitz' By Lili Anolik Scribner: $30, 352 pages If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Lili Anolik, author of “Didion & Babitz.” After reading the letters, Anolik ditched her plans to revise “Hollywood’s Eve,” pivoting instead to write “Didion & Babitz,” …

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Book Review: A new book about cult favorite Eve Babitz throws shade on reputation of Joan Didion
1 month, 1 week ago

Book Review: A new book about cult favorite Eve Babitz throws shade on reputation of Joan Didion

Associated Press  

An entire generation of literary-minded women has not stopped telling itself stories influenced by master storyteller Joan Didion. Her biggest fangirl might be Lili Anolik, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair whose 2014 article about Babitz, followed by her 2019 biography “Hollywood’s Eve,” fueled a revival of interest in her work. Now Anolik is back with a new book, “Didion …

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Were Joan Didion and Eve Babitz really two sides of the same coin?
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Were Joan Didion and Eve Babitz really two sides of the same coin?

LA Times  

Book review Didion & Babitz By Lili Anolik Scribner: 352 pages, $29.99 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. When I first cracked open Lili Anolik’s dazzling and provocative “Didion & Babitz,” I was dubious. Anolik followed that in 2019 with a passionate immersion into Babitz’s …

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Books of the month
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Books of the month

The Independent  

Alan Bennett turned 90 in May and the marvellous old trouper shows flashes of his famously droll wit in Killing Time, a novella set during the pandemic in a home for the elderly called Hill Topp House. Box Office Poison: Hollywood’s Story in a Century of Flops by Tim Robey is published by Faber on 7 November, £16.99 Oliver Sacks: …

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Author Eve Babitz, who captured and embodied the culture of Los Angeles, dies at 78
3 years ago

Author Eve Babitz, who captured and embodied the culture of Los Angeles, dies at 78

LA Times  

Eve Babitz, the author known for her hedonistic chronicles of Los Angeles drawn largely from her own life, died Friday at 78. This was in part thanks to the work of a biographer, Lili Anolik, who published “Hollywood’s Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.” in 2019. Her bravura knowingness was intact until the end.” Books Eve Babitz …

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How Bennington’s literary brat pack spawned an addictive, L.A.-obsessed podcast
3 years ago

How Bennington’s literary brat pack spawned an addictive, L.A.-obsessed podcast

LA Times  

Lili Anolik hasn’t spent much of her life at an L.A. address. Not famous-famous, but not exactly B-listers either: She wrote a memorable 2014 Harper’s essay on troubled West Coast jazz saxophonist Art Pepper and a 2019 quasi-biography of ‘70s scenester-author Eve Babitz, “Hollywood’s Eve.” And she co-hosted a 2020 podcast on scandal-struck porn star Traci Lords, “Once Upon a …

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