Corvettes, Chess, and Cigarettes
The iconography and interiority of Joan Didion and Eve Babitz through the lens of Lili Anolik’s new biography. One naked, playing chess with Duchamp, the other, cigarette in hand in front of a white Corvette: Eve and Joan. Their iconic images preceded them, intertwined in our minds as “Daughters of the Wasteland,” L.A. ladies. In …
