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“... Babitz was fun at a party, but from an early age allowed no good deed to go unpunished. Lili Anolik has now produced her second book on Babitz, a book in which our heroine is not as good a writer as Didion and it’s somehow Didion’s fault. Anolik easily converts Didion’s talent and discipline into ...”

“... publishing her first memoir, Eve’s Hollywood, in her early thirties. She told her biographer, Lili Anolik, that ‘everything I wrote’ after that was ‘memoir or essay or whatever you want to call it’. ‘Death, to me,’ she wrote, ‘has always been the last word in people having fun without you.’When she graduated from Hollywood High in ...”