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Eve Babitz
Babitz’s talent for the brilliant line, honed to a point, never interferes with her feel for languid pleasures. -The New York Times Book Review
A new reissue of Babitz’s collection…
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A rediscovered classic: Eve Babitz’s wry, tender coming-of-age tale of 1970s LA.
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Journalist, party girl, bookworm, muse, artist: by the time she’d hit thirty, the author had been all of these things. She gives us indelible snapshots of southern California’s haute bohemians…
Offers a full-fledged and full-bodied evocation of a bygone Southern California. In ten sun-baked, Santa Ana wind-swept sketches, the author recreates a Los Angeles of movie stars distraught over their…
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It is the 1970s in LA, and Jacaranda Leven - child of sun and surf - is swept into the dazzling cultural milieu of the beautiful people.
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Eve Babitz,Molly Lambert
All previously uncollected, these nonfiction pieces range from sharp personal essays on body image and the male gaze to playful meditations on everything from ballroom dancing to kissing to perfume.
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With the popularity of swing and social dancing at an all-time high, the author provides a provocative look at the hottest trend to sweep the nation. 10 line drawings.
Lili Anolik
An account of the birth, adolescence, and adulthood of 20th-century Hollywood through the vivid and unashamed life of Los Angeles-born glamour girl, bohemian, artist, muse, sensualist, wit, and pioneering writer…
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A glittering coming-of-age tale set in ‘70s Los Angeles.
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Eve Babitz,Eve Babitz
From one of Vanity Fair’s rising stars comes a brilliant, star-studded portrait of the glamorous and brazen Hollywood artist, muse, and writer Eve Babitz.
Hollywood, California in the 60s and…
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I practically snorted this book, stayed up all night with it. Anolik decodes, ruptures, and ultimately intensifies Eve’s singular irresistible glitz. –Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker The Eve Babitz book…
Los Angeles in the 1960s and 70s was the pop culture capital of the world - a movie factory, a music factory, a dream factory. Eve Babitz was the ultimate…
