Paid Subscriber Special - DIDION & BABITZ, TONIGHT

I'm interviewing the author of the most stylish book of the year - and you're invited!

Hello Team CCC! Here’s a mid week bonus for paid subscribers…a free ticket to tonight’s online event with the How To Academy.

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.

The event starts at 6PM GMT, and the Zoom link to join us is below. If it’s possible to make this available on catch up, I will - I’m not sure whether I’ll have access to the playback, but if I have it, I’ll share it!

Hope to see you there,

Love

Daisy x