{"title":"Spring Picks","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"didion-babitz","title":"Didion \u0026 Babitz","description":"\u003cp\u003eNational bestseller * Named a best book of the year by Time, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Air Mail, Harper's Bazaar, The Washington Post, and more!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoan Didion is revealed at last in this \"vivid, engrossing\" (Vogue), and outrageously provocative dual biography \"that reads like a propulsive novel\" (Oprah Daily) revealing the mutual attractions—and antagonisms—of Didion and her fellow literary titan, Eve Babitz.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBOOK SUMMARY\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCould you write what you write if you weren't so tiny, Joan? —Eve Babitz, in a letter to Joan Didion, 1972. 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.\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. You'll be reaching for Didion's and Babitz's books to search for evidence of the messy truths revealed on these pages.\" —Oprah Daily\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePRODUCT INFORMATION\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover\u003cbr\u003e352 Pages\u003cbr\u003eBiography \u0026amp;amp; Autobiography\u003cbr\u003e9 in H | 6 in W | 1.4 in T | 1.1 lb\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Posman Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45157741428935,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/3277\/8951\/files\/9781668065495-Didion_20_20Babitz_20Anolik2620.jpg?v=1777584500"},{"product_id":"glorious-exploits-a-novel","title":"Glorious Exploits (A Novel)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eBOOK SUMMARY\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eOn the island of Sicily amid the Peloponnesian War, the Syracusans have figured out what to do with the surviving Athenians who had the gall to invade their city: they've herded the sorry prisoners of war into a rock quarry and left them to rot. Looking for a way to pass the time, Lampo and Gelon, two unemployed potters with a soft spot poetry and drink, head down into the quarry to feed the Athenians if, and only if, they can manage a few choice lines from their great playwright Euripides. Before long, the two mates hatch a plan to direct a full-blown production of Medea. After all, you can hate the people but love their art. But as opening night approaches, what started as a lark quickly sets in motion a series of extraordinary events, and our wayward heroes begin to realize that staging a play can be as dangerous as fighting a war, with all sorts of risks to life, limb, and friendship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eTold in a contemporary Irish voice and as riotously funny as it is deeply moving, Glorious Exploits is an unforgettable ode to the power of art in a time of war, brotherhood in a time of enmity, and human will throughout the ages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eABOUT THE AUTHOR\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eFerdia Lennon was born and raised in Dublin. He holds a BA in history and classics from University College Dublin and an MA in prose fiction from the University of East Anglia. Glorious Exploits is his first novel. A Sunday Times bestseller, it was adapted for BBC Radio 4 and was the winner of the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2024. After spending many years in Paris, he now lives in Norwich with his wife and son.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003ePRAISE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\"A stunning (and stunningly fun) meditation on companionship, humanity and the role of performance in keeping us all afloat. . . . In a contemporary moment of war, Lennon's sharp eye for the barbarism that can accompany society's theatrical coping mechanisms feels almost too relevant . . . [A] thrilling and heartbreaking debut novel.\" — Talya Zax, The Washington Post\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\"Remarkable . . . Glorious Exploits owes its emotional impact to the clear-eyed skepticism that makes its hopefulness hard-won . . . Lennon's artistry allows him, without being naive or pious, to make the case for art.\" — Fintan O'Toole, The New York Review of Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\"If the googly eyes on the cover didn't make it apparent, Ferdia Lennon's knockout debut novel Glorious Exploits is hilarious. In fact, it's loaded with dark humor literally from page one. 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Gaitskill writes with such authority, such radar-perfect detail.\" — Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003ePRODUCT INFORMATION\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap leading-[1.7]\"\u003eBook type: Paperback \u003cbr\u003ePage count: 224 \u003cbr\u003eGenre: Fiction \u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 8\" | 5.19\" \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Posman Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46079693947079,"sku":null,"price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/3277\/8951\/files\/bad-behavior-stories-6246356.jpg?v=1774628827"}],"url":"https:\/\/posmanbooks.com\/collections\/spring-picks.oembed","provider":"Posman Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}