{"title":"Can We Offer You a Niche in This Trying Time?","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"183\" data-end=\"272\"\u003eHyper-specific books and objects of fascination, curated for the chronically curious. For the person who’s suddenly obsessed with ancient fungi. Or mid-century architecture. Or the history of perfume. 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Inside, a lost world.\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\u003eABOUT THE AUTHOR\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLili Anolik is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and a writer at large for Air Mail. She is the author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller Hollywood's Eve and Didion and Babitz. Her last podcast, Once Upon a Time…at Bennington College, was produced by Cadence13. In 2024, she was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for profile writing. She lives in New York City with her husband and two sons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePRAISE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Anolik brings her journalistic instincts and her deep passion for Didion and Babitz to create a vivid, engrossing work.\" —Vogue\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Dazzling and provocative . . . I found myself cheering on Anolik's decision to make one more foray into Babitz's glittering, free-falling, unencumbered yet troubled world. Would I want my daughter to follow Babitz's path or Didion's, if given the choice? Probably not Babitz's. But what a ride.\" —Leigh Haber, The Los Angeles Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Anolik unearths a complicated, contentious—and scandalously overlooked—alliance between these two glamorous behemoths of Californian literature. . . . What results is a love letter in the form of this detailed biography that reads like a propulsive novel. 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