Question
Two answers required. Lili Anolik’s 2024 double biography of these two authors calls them the “two halves of American womanhood.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these two Los Angeles-based writers. Anolik insists that a book by one of them, Slow Days, Fast Company, should be read together with an essay collection by the other that opens “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
ANSWER: Eve Babitz AND Joan Didion [accept in either order; accept Didion and Babitz]
[10m] The aforementioned essay collection is this book by Didion whose title essay describes a recording session of The Doors and conversations with Linda Kasabian of the Manson family.
ANSWER: The White Album
[10e] Anolik reveals that Babitz’s first shot at publication came when she wrote a letter to this author, who surprisingly responded and got her a meeting at Simon and Schuster. This author created the characters Milo Minderbinder and Yossarian.
ANSWER: Joseph Heller
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