Scenes are whole worlds, but worlds need creation myths, and Anolik has made a career out of writing those creation myths.

Lili Anolik’s “Didion & Babitz” is a sparkling and ardent look at the conflicting sensibilities of two iconic Californians ...

Lili Anolik turns a cache of letters between Joan Didion and Eve Babitz into a book about the unlikely friendship between two ...

Lili Anolik’s dual biography of Joan Didion and Eve Babitz makes a compelling case that the literary icons weren’t just ...

Lili Anolik, who’s unearthed Eve Babitz and exposed Donna Tartt, now strips the sentiment which has gathered around one of ...

Once Anolik completed “Hollywood’s Eve,” she hoped the book would serve as a kind of “auto-exorcism” closing the chapter on ...

In ‘Didion & Babitz,’ journalist Lili Anolik unpacks the volatile yet symbiotic relationship between two literary icons.

And a decade later, after watching authors tirelessly self-market online, I find myself wishing that writers still had the ...

In 2019. Vanity Fair contributing editor Lili Anolik published “Hollywood’s Eve.” The biography, based on an earlier article ...

One item that particularly piqued Anolik’s interest was an unsent letter to Joan Didion from 1972, chastising her for, among other things, not reading Virginia Woolf. The allure of greater ...

Hollywood actresses took turns reading previously unpublished letters penned by the late Eve Babitz to others, including Joan ...

In a term, they were It Girls. But Lili Anolik, author of the new nonfiction book Didion & Babitz, isn’t so fond of the modern concept of the “Literary It Girl,” a phrase that’s both ...