{"product_id":"didion-and-babitz-hardcover","title":"Didion and Babitz - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLili Anolik\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoan Didion is revealed at last in this outrageously provocative and profoundly moving new work \"that reads like a propulsive novel\" (\u003ci\u003eOprah Daily\u003c\/i\u003e) on the mutual attractions--and mutual antagonisms--of Didion and her fellow literary titan, Eve Babitz.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCould you write what you write if you weren't so tiny, Joan? \u003c\/i\u003e--Eve Babitz, in a letter to Joan Didion, 1972 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Joan Didion, revealed at last... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEve 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e7406 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 \u003ci\u003etrue\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDidion, in spite of her confessional style, is so little known or understood. She's remained opaque, elusive. Until now. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLili Anolik is a contributing editor at \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has also appeared in \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e. She's written \u003ci\u003eHollywood's Eve \u003c\/i\u003eand created the podcast \u003ci\u003eOnce Upon a Time... at Bennington College\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in New York City with her husband and two sons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.18 x 9.12 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 12, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51987444465965,"sku":"9781668065488","price":28.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/nSqfS1x4Ad9781668065488.webp?v=1776178741","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/didion-and-babitz-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}