Eve babitz

A new book on the Los Angeles authors leaves no petty stone unturned as it explores their fraught friendship

According to the original cult L.A. writer, she’s just been living her life.

Eve Babitz Interview: The Literary Icon Opens Up About Her Past

Los Angeles Through the Eyes of Eve Babitz

Eve Babitz chronicled boozy, druggy, hedonistic '60s and '70s California in most of her seven books, including recently reissued essay collections Slow Days, Fast Company and Eve's Hollywood. Now, bildungsroman Sex and Rage has also been resurrected.

A child of Hollywood, she wrote of the sensuous pleasures of Los Angeles, and sampled them enthusiastically.

Eve Babitz's L.A. Woman

January 7, 2019 – Technically she’d spoken to me, though she’d refused to engage in dialogue other than of the Mad Hatter variety, each sentence unconnected from the sentence that came before.

Eve Babitz, who chronicled life in Los Angeles with a hedonistic zeal drawing from lived experience, found her truest literary fame late in life.

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