Everyone wants to be Eve Babitz
At Moth Club in Hackney, a horde of bookish Babitz fans try to recreate a lost world
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Joan Didion without her style
The writer’s posthumous therapy journal is raw and unvarnished – the most direct book she never wrote.
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Joan Didion vs Eve Babitz
Lili Anolik’s dual biography reveals the writers’ vicious battle to be the true voice of 1970s California.
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Andrew O’Hagan Q&A: “Joan Didion once told me not to stay at the Beverly Hills Hotel“
The author discusses the Smiths, Billy Connolly and the Home Secretary’s poor decision making.
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How Joan Didion broke free
Joan Didion has died aged 87. In this essay, Leo Robson explored how the chronicler of American counterculture was tormented…
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Anxious in America: On writing the life of Joan Didion
Tracy Daugherty’s biography of Joan Didion is most interesting when it comes to highlighting the complex dynamics inherent in a…
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