eve babitz and joan didion died within a week. never heard of the former til recently and wanted to indulge but read some didion back in the day when i read at all. she definitely seems like the patron st of cool chick writers for cool chick writers if they managed to live through their sylvia plath phase.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/dec/20/eve-babitz-chronicler-of-1960s-and-70s-hollywood-excess-dies-aged-78

https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/joan-didion/

didion: the national review years?

https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/12/joan-didion-the-national-review-years/