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Lili Anolik on the Complicated Relationship Between Eve Babitz and Joan Didion
Lili Anolik is the guest. She is the author of Hollywood’s Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A., out now from Scribner. Subscribe and download the episode, wherever you get your podcasts!...
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From Eve Babitz to Raven Leilani, Readings on Solipsistic, Transformative Love
“I don’t know if what we have is love, but it’s on my mind,” Drake sings, in “Talk To Me.” This lyric has haunted me over the last year. It perfectly encapsulates one of my favorite subjects: those...
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California State of Mind: Searching for Didion and Babitz in Literary Los...
“I’m sorry.” These were the first words out of my fiancé Karl’s mouth on the morning of December. My first thought: what could a man possibly do in his sleep that would warrant an apology on waking?...
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Writing Advice from Rachel Yoder: Take a Break, Hug a Tree
Rachel Yoder’s Nightbitch is out now in paperback from Anchor, so we asked about her favorite books and methods of procrastination. * How do you tackle writer’s block? Gotta say I haven’t really been...
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Liska Jacobs on Leaving Los Angeles, City of “Impermanence and Unreliability”
On the flight to Berlin I drank a cup of hot black tea with two packets of sugar for the shock. I had left Los Angeles, my home. A place that is as much a part of me as my soft tissues and organs. I...
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My Feral Shelf: On Building a Personal Library of Bad Behavior
In the wake of ongoing discussions about whether we can love monstrous writers, or whether we should even write monstrous characters, I have escaped into a personal library not of monsters, but of...
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The Annotated Nightstand: What Aisha Sabatini Sloan Is Reading Now and Next
As an essay collection, it should be no surprise that Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit attends to topics that are simultaneously varied and interconnected. Throughout each, Sloan has a topic—a piece of...
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A syllabus for fans of You Must Remember This.
There’s just something about the Golden Age of Hollywood. Though I know all that glitters covers doom and profound exploitation, my personal heart beats a little faster when confronted with a Busby...
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Eve and Joan: Exploring the Tumultuous Friendship of LA’s Literary Ladies
My book on Eve Babitz, Hollywood’s Eve, came out in 2019. Writing it was my way of driving a stake through her heart. It wasn’t that I didn’t love her. It was that I loved her too much. I’d been in her...
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What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
Richard Price’s Lazarus Man, Lili Anolik’s Didion & Babitz, and Katherine Rundell’s Vanishing Treasures all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit...
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