This week: uber L.A. woman Eve Babitz. How do you talk about a woman who knew everyone and did everything there is to do?? We give it a shot--covering her life, her work, and her recent revival on #bookstagram.
Books mentioned: Eve’s Hollywood, Slow Days Fast Company, Sex & Rage, L.A. Woman, I Used to Be Charming, Eve Babitz; Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A, Lili Anolik; Catch-22, Joseph Heller; The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West; Play It as It Lays, Joan Didion; Essays, Michel de Montaigne; Paradise Lost, John Milton; Priestdaddy, Patricia Lockwood; Conversations With Friends, Sally Rooney; How Should a Person Be?, Sheila Heti; Trick Mirror, Jia Tolentino.
Resources:
- All About Eve--And Then Some (Lili Anolik, Vanity Fair)
- Eve Babitz is Better Than Ever (OLIVIA AYLMER, Vanity Fair)
- Jia Tolentino on Eve (New Yorker)
- The Eve Babtiz Revival (Penelope Green, NYT)
- My Favorite Year: In Los Angeles with Eve Babitz in 1971 (Dan Wakefield, LA Review of Books)
- Eve Babitz’s Vision of Total Freedom (Marie Solis, The Nation)
- L.A. Confidential (Holly Brubach, NYT Style Magazine)
- Germans in L.A. (Alex Ross, New Yorker)
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