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While Katie and Eva turn toward more conventional career paths, Sally, who displays an artistic temperament early on, persists in pursuing a career in art — an outlier in a family of ambitious careerists.

“Didion & Babitz,” available Nov. 12, probes this Janus-like contrast until a sharp picture forms of Didion as the ambitious careerist and Babitz as her muse, who subsequently becomes a writer herself.

Hawk, who leans left in his political alliances, is a careerist shark.

“I don’t know if it’s the best career path, but we always looked at it as the path of an artist rather than a careerist path,” says David.

That framing has been embraced by the professional centrists and careerists of mainstream media.