Scenes are whole worlds, but worlds need creation myths, and Didion & Babitz author Lili Anolik has made a career out of writing those creation myths.
Before Joan Didion and Eve Babitz became the 21st century displays of intellect on your nightstands, they were hanging out together in L.A. They belonged to a time when writers could be celebrities, real ones, the kind who hung out with movie stars and slept with guys in bands. In a term, they were It Girls.
But she didn’t throw them away. It was like she wanted somebody in the future who would have a broader perspective or somebody in the future would actually understand the import of what was actually in those letters.” And perhaps that’s the fangirl talking — Anolik readily admits, both in the book and in real life, how deluded she might come across sometimes when guessing about the inner world of Eve Babitz, but she doesn’t care.
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