It’s sixties Hollywood and the relationship between two literary titans is about to explode. Join Vanity Fair’s Lili Anolik for a trip to LA and the salacious, gossip-drenched tale of a friendship turned rotten.

‘Could you write what you write if you weren’t so tiny, Joan?’ -Eve Babitz, in a letter to Joan Didion, 1972

Join us for a journey back in time to the lost world of Los Angeles and the golden age of Hollywood, where artists and movie stars mix with writers and rock-n-rollers in drug-fuelled parties on Franklin Avenue.

Here two legends of American letters formed a complicated alliance that quickly turned sour: Joan Didion, a mystery behind her dark glasses and cool expression, her marriage to John Gregory Dunne as tortured as it was enduring; and Eve Babitz, goddaughter of Igor Stravinsky, nude of Marcel Duchamp, consort of Jim Morrison (and many, many others), a woman who burned so hot she finally almost burned herself alive.

Drawing on never-before-seen correspondence between Joan and Eve – letters so intimate you don’t read them so much as breathe them – Vanity Fair’s Lili Anolik joins Daisy Buchanan to reveal the untold true story of these two truly iconic writers.

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