Lili Anolik

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Lili Anolik is an American writer. She is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair .

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Early life and education

Anolik graduated from Princeton University where she majored in English. At Princeton, she played tennis and in her senior year wrote for The Daily Princetonian . [1]

In 2003, Anolik received a degree from the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences of Boston University. [2]

Career

After graduating from Princeton in 2000, Anolik worked for a year at IMG in Los Angeles. [3] [4]

In 2020, Anolik and Ashley West hosted the podcast Once Upon a Time…in the Valley about pornstar Traci Lords. [5] [6] [7]

In 2021, Anolik hosted the podcast Once Upon a Time...at Bennington College a 14 episode podcast about the literary culture at Bennington College in the 1980s. [3]

Awards and honors

In 2024, Anolik was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for profile writing. [8]

Personal life

Anolik is married to dermatologist Robert Anolik. [9] [10]

Books

References

  1. "Tiger of the Week: First-time Novelist Lili Anolik '00 | Princeton Alumni Weekly". paw.princeton.edu.
  2. "Remembering Leslie Epstein, Pillar of BU's Creative Writing Program". May 23, 2025.
  3. 1 2 Athitakis, Mark (December 7, 2021). "How Bennington's literary brat pack spawned an addictive, L.A.-obsessed podcast". Los Angeles Times.
  4. "Eve Babitz reveals the secret history of L.A. in a fascinating new biography". EW.com.
  5. "Once Upon a Time in the Valley Takes a Petty Approach to Traci Lords". Jezebel.
  6. Rich, Katey (2020-07-20). "The Porn Industry's Biggest Scandal Is Also an Unsolved Mystery". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2025-09-06.
  7. Jarvey, Natalie (July 10, 2020). "Podcast Playlist: Docuseries 'Once Upon a Time…in the Valley' to Explore Traci Lords Scandal".
  8. "AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MAGAZINE EDITORS ANNOUNCES NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARDS 2024 NOMINEES". www.asme.media.
  9. Rich, Katey (2020-07-20). "The Porn Industry's Biggest Scandal Is Also an Unsolved Mystery". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2025-09-06.
  10. Sugar, Rachel (February 11, 2022). "Lili Anolik Starts Each Day With Soda". Grub Street.
  11. Cooke, Rachel (November 17, 2024). "Didion & Babitz by Lili Anolik review –the seductress and the sphinx" via The Guardian.
  12. Meltzer, Marisa (2024-11-10). "Book Review: 'Didion & Babitz,' by Lili Anolik". The New York Times. Retrieved 2025-09-06.
  13. Nevins, Jake (November 14, 2024). "Lili Anolik Takes Us Inside the Literary Rivalry Between Joan Didion and Eve Babitz". Interview Magazine.
  14. Garner, Dwight (2018-12-31). "A Breezy Look at Eve Babitz, a Writer With a Born Feel for the Charms of Los Angeles". The New York Times. Retrieved 2025-09-06.
  15. "Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A. by Lili Anolik". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2025-09-06.
  16. "With Love and Squalor: On Lili Anolik's "Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A."". Los Angeles Review of Books. January 14, 2019.
  17. Romanoff, Zan (January 10, 2019). "Meet the Writer Who Chased Eve Babitz All Over Hollywood".
  18. Beggs, Alex (March 4, 2015). "Murder Most Preppy: Lili Anolik's Dark Rooms Is the Perfect Thriller for March". Vanity Fair.
  19. "Dark Rooms by Lili Anolik". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2025-09-06.