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Title	:	Eve's Hollywood
Author	:	Eve Babitz
Book Format	:	Unknown Binding
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 296 pages
Published	:	January 1st 1974 by Delacorte Press/S. Lawrence
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir

Eve's Hollywood Unknown Binding | Pages: 296 pages

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Journalist, party girl, bookworm, artist, muse: by the time she’d hit thirty, Eve Babitz had played all of these roles. Immortalized as the nude beauty facing down Duchamp and as one of Ed Ruscha’s Five 1965 Girlfriends, Babitz’s first book showed her to be a razor-sharp writer with tales of her own. Eve’s Hollywood is an album of  vivid snapshots of Southern California’s haute bohemians, of outrageously beautiful high-school ingenues and enviably tattooed Chicanas, of rock stars sleeping it off at the Chateau Marmont. And though Babitz’s prose might appear careening, she’s in control as she takes us on a ride through an LA of perpetual delight, from a joint serving the perfect taquito, to the corner of La Brea and Sunset where we make eye contact with a roller-skating hooker, to the Watts Towers. This “daughter of the wasteland” is here to show us that her city is no wasteland at all but a glowing landscape of swaying fruit trees and blooming bougainvillea, buffeted by earthquakes and the Santa Ana winds—and every bit as seductive as she is. 

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Original Title:	Eve's Hollywood
ISBN:	0440023394 (ISBN13: 9780440023395)

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I loved another book by Babitz called Slow days, fast company, but this one I think is mostly repetition of the themes she touches in her stories. L.A. which is great, since I had not really read too many books about LA, but other than that, her themes are the same: Beauty, now that is an important element in her writing, all about beautiful friends, her own beauty, the beauty of strangers, the importance of it growing up in the city where so many people are actors, the beauty of movie stars,

Really enjoyed this collection of short pieces about (growing up in) L.A.

This book and me just could not get it ON. A shame really, for all our intents and purposes, this could have been an average -above average even!- one night stand, but we ended up on two sides of the bed, me, painfully embarrassed trying not to stare or gape, him, jerking off. It's an embarrassing story but I suppose we were both responsible. I didn't bring any much knowledge of 1950s LA to the table, all I had was a ebbing intrigue of artist and celebrity circles in the revolutionary times. And

It takes a certain kind of innocence to like L.A. The Iconic photograph of Eve Babitz playing chess with Marcel Duchamp taken by Julian Wasser at the Pasadena Art Museum.I have always had Eve Babitz categorized in my mind as one of the IT girls of the 1960s/1970s. As I was doing some research on her before reading this book, I suddenly realized that I did know her without knowing her. (I actually heard an audible click in my head as the tumblers fell into place.) The iconic photograph taken by

****1/2 - This book is delightfully insouciant and opinionated - the collage-like and deceptively artless- and conversational-seeming memories, observations, musings, and evocations of a smart, half-confident/half-neurotic, dyed-in-the-wool L.A. girl who seems to transmute her immersion(s) in her milieu(x) directly from her mind's roving eye onto the page.

The fact this book ends at Benihana is just so fucking perfect.

could not finish bc this big titty bitch is insufferable