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Joan Didion is revealed at last in this outrageously provocative and profoundly moving new work that reads like a propulsive novel (Oprah Daily) on the mutual attractionsand mutual antagonismsof Didion and her fellow literary titan, Eve Babitz.Could you write what you write if you weren't so tiny, Joan? Eve Babitz, in a letter to Joan Didion, 1972
Joan Didion, revealed at last
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
