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Note: This is not a reprint. The original paperback or hardcover edition has been purchased directly from the authorized distributor or publisher. The book purchased has been carefully bound in genuine leather to enhance its durability and extend its shelf life. Please be assured that no content or pages have been altered or reformatted during the leather binding process. Product Information: - Title of Product: Didion and Babitz by Lili Anolik [Royal Edition] Author: Lili Anolik Number of Pages: 352 Publication Year: 2024 Language: English Book Synopsis: - Joan Didion is revealed at last in this outrageously provocative and profoundly moving new work on the mutual attractions—and mutual antagonisms—of Didion and her fellow literary titan, Eve Babitz. Could you write what you write if you weren’t so tiny, Joan? —Eve Babitz, in a letter to Joan Didion, 1972 Joan Didion, revealed at last… Eve Babitz died on December 17, 2021. Found in the wrack, ruin, and filth of her apartment, a stack of boxes packed by her mother decades before. The boxes were pristine, the seals of duct tape unbroken. Inside, a lost world. This world turned for a certain number of years in the late sixties and early seventies, and centered on a two-story rental in a down-at-heel section of Hollywood. 7406 Franklin Avenue, a combination salon-hotbed-living end where writers and artists mixed with movie stars, rock ’n’ rollers, and drug trash. 7406 Franklin Avenue was the making of one great American writer: Joan Didion, a mystery behind her dark glasses and cool expression; an enigma inside her storied marriage to John Gregory Dunne, their union as tortured as it was enduring. 7406 Franklin Avenue was the breaking and then the remaking—and thus the true making—of another great American writer: Eve Babitz, goddaughter of Igor Stravinsky, nude of Marcel Duchamp, consort of Jim Morrison (among many, many others), a woman who burned so hot she finally almost burned herself alive. Didion and Babitz formed a complicated alliance, a friendship that went bad, amity turning to enmity. Didion, in spite of her confessional style, is so little known or understood. She’s remained opaque, elusive. Until now. 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. Author Overview: -Lili Anolik is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and a writer at large for Air Mail. Her last book, the L.A. Times bestseller Hollywood's Eve, was also published by Scribner. Her last podcast, Once Upon a Time… at Bennington College, was produced by Cadence13. In 2024, she was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for profile writing. She lives in New York City with her husband and two sons. Track Page Views With Auctiva's Counter

Specifics

Author	Lili Anolik
Book Title	Didion and Babitz by Lili Anolik [Royal Edition]
Country of Origin	India
Edition	Collector's Edition
Features	Leather Bound
Format	Premium Leather Bound
Genre	Biographies & Memoirs
ISBN	Doesnotapply
Intended Audience	Adults
Language	English
Original Language	English
Publication Year	2024
Topic	Biographies & Memoirs
Type	Book
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