Eve's Hollywood
by Eve Babitz · first published 2015
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"Journalist, party girl, bookworm, muse, artist: by the time she'd hit thirty, Eve Babitz had been all of these things. Immortalized as the nude beauty facing Duchamp over a chessboard and as one of Ed Ruscha's Five 1965 Girlfriends, it turns out that Babitz was a writer with stories of her own. In Eve's Hollywood she gives us indelible snapshots of southern California's haute bohemians, of surpassingly lovely high school ingenues ("people with brains went to New York and people with faces came West") and enviably tattooed Chicanas, of burnt-out rock stars in the Chateau Marmont. In her decept
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> Eve's Hollywood by Eve Babitz, if you want to fall in love with a Los Angeles even more, great writing Goodreads recommended me this after I read Slouching Towards Bethlehem (which I really liked). Now I have a second…
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2023 and recommend for 2024” ↗…you like his other books, especially less than 0, it’s worth reading. Picked up at Literati in Ann Arbor, great bookstore near a few other great bookstores on the edge of Kerrytown, highly recommend Eve's Hollywood by Eve Babitz, if you want to fall in love with a Los Angeles even more, great writing An Attempt at exhausting a place in Paris by George Perec, a quick read can’t remember if it was the first book…
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