Didion & Babitz

Title Didion & Babitz
Names Anolik, Lili.
Book Number DB126202
Title Status Active
Medium Digital Books
Annotation "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. 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... 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."-- Provided by publisher. -- Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
Narrator Anolik, Lili.
Roberts, Emma.
Local Subject American fiction in English - 813
Biography and Autobiography - BIO
Biography - Historical - BIH
Biography - Literary - BIL
Biography - Notable Women - BIW
Journalism & the Media - JOU
Women's Issues - WOM
Exclusion - Female Narrator - FN
Exclusion - Long Book - LO
Current Talking Book Topics - TBT
LC Subject Women authors, American - 20th century - Biography
Los Angeles (Calif.) - Biography
Los Angeles (Calif.) - Intellectual life - 20th century
Biographies
Informational works
Nonfiction
Call Number 813.54 ANF
Language English
Original Publication Reissue of: 2024 9781668112465 2024
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