{"product_id":"didion-and-babitz-9781668065488","title":"Didion and Babitz","description":"\u003csection class=\"container mx-auto px-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-section-wrapper\"\u003e\n\u003csection id=\"description\" class=\"mb-10\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"card w-full bg-white p-5 rounded-lg\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prose\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJoan 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCould you write what you write if you weren't so tiny, Joan?\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e--Eve Babitz, in a letter to Joan Didion, 1972\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoan Didion, revealed at last...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003etrue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003emaking--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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDidion, in spite of her confessional style, is so little known or understood. She's remained opaque, elusive. Until now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e","brand":"Ingram Content Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52749874266395,"sku":"Ing-Book-065488","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0720\/7777\/1035\/files\/35d8552128be8e80270e4cc31d1efccc.webp?v=1786316090","url":"https:\/\/weirdfishrecords.com\/products\/didion-and-babitz-9781668065488","provider":"Weird Fish Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}