In this episode of  Private Life , Lili Anolik joins Jarrett Earnest for a conversation about the life and legacy of Eve Babitz, in honor of the publication of New York Review Books’s  Too L.A.: Letters Never Sent (But Some Were)  (2026), a collection of Babitz’s correspondence. Click the “Subscribe” link in the player above to follow this podcast on your favorite listening platform. Earnest and Anolik discuss Babitz’s captivating persona and the strange course of her life, from New York to Los Angeles and from riotous success to anonymity. Anolik, who has spent over a decade researching and writing about Babitz, talks about the notorious photo of a nude Babitz, age twenty-one, playing chess with Marcel Duchamp; her relationship with Joan Didion, and her artistic legacy captured through letter writing.   Eve Babitz (1943–2021) was a writer and artist from Hollywood, California.…