I enjoyed this paragraph enormously:
“I am obsessed with literary and media rivalries (historical or contemporary). So when Vanity Fair recently published a wild piece about the not-overly-fond friendship between Joan Didion and Eve Babitz — featuring the very spiky letters EB wrote to JD in the 70s — I was hooked. In one letter Babitz suggests that Didion’s success and fame were only tolerated by men – including her own husband — because of her waif-like size. “Could you write what you write if you weren’t so tiny, Joan?” It’s the “Joan” there that kills me. Eve!”
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