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A TOP 12 BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK IN THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES
THE BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK FOR NOVEMBER 2024
'This book is magic. It's all I ever needed' LENA DUNHAM
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, centred on a two-story rental in a down-at-heel section of Hollywood in the sixties and seventies.
7406 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. Franklin Avenue was also the breaking and then the remaking - and thus the true making - 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.
With 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.
Contents
1: Eve Bah-bitz with the Great Big Tits 2: Social Masterpieces 3: Joan Didion's (True) Origin Story 4: Joan Didion's (True) Origin Story, Continued 5: Fuckable 6: Double Trouble 7: Out of the Blue 8: An Epistolary Interlude 9: By the Sea 10: Still by the Sea 11: I'll See You on Johnny Carson 12: Female Male Chauvinist Pigs 13: Unsent Letters 14: Back to the Sea 15: In Every Young Man's Life . . . 16: The Queen of Ports 17: Eve's Hymen, Resewn 18: Joan, 1977 19: Spurts 20: So Mad, SO MAD 21: Squalid Overboogie 22: Beyond Squalid Overboogie 23: The End 24: Montage 25: Fire 26: A Friend from Hollywood 27: Eve's Life After Death
