Reading Didion & Babitz feels like entering a glamorous party with a hundred faces you’ve heard of but never met. Lili Anolik, our gracious host and author, holds our hand as she drops us in and out of conversations, passing us around like a baton. When the conversation starts to lull, she interrupts and jumps timelines. It's decadent, it's dizzying, but she’s leading us towards her guests of honor and her raison d’être—Joan Didion and Eve Babitz. Night and Day. Yin and Yang, only fully formed when standing beside one another.
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