Hollywood Secrets & Literary Legends: Lili Anolik on Didion, Babitz, and the Wild 60s LA Scene

Lili shares some of the scoop from her terrific biography DIDION & BABITZ including Harrison Ford supplying drugs to much of the 1960s Los Angeles literary scene, Steve Martin's slightly awkward early romantic life, sex with Jim Morrison and Jackson Browne. She also discusses how we can come to understand the identity of a decade retroactively, why some writers continue to be read for many decades while others fade from popularity and that this phenomenon has more to do with circumstances rather than being a final judgement on the quality of the writing, and reveals who would be a terrific actor to play Eve Babitz in film. Lili Anolik: gimlet (2 1/2 ounces gin, squeezed lime juice, sugar)