"I practically snorted this book, stayed up all night with it.
Anolik\'s elegant and provocative new book is equal parts biography an.
For Babitz, life was slow days, fast company until a freak fire in the 90s turned her into a recluse, living in a condo in West Hollywood, where Lili Anolik tracked her down in 2012.
Her prose achieves that American ideal: art that stays loose, maintains its cool, and is so sheerly enjoyable as to be mistaken for simple entertainment.
Now in her mid-seventies, she\'s on the cusp of literary stardom and recognition as an essential--as the essential--LA writer.
Under-known and under-read during her career, she\'s since experienced a breakthrough.
She would go on to produce seven books, usually billed as novels or short story collections, always autobiographies and confessionals.
Then, at nearly thirty, her It girl days numbered, Babitz was discovered--as a writer--by Joan Didion.
There were the men she seduced: Jim Morrison, Ed Ruscha, Harrison Ford, to name but a very few.
There were the album covers she designed: for Buffalo Springfield and the Byrds, to name but a few.
Babitz spent the rest of the decade rocking and rolling on the Sunset Strip, honing her notoriety.
The photograph, cheesecake with a Dadaist twist, made her an instant icon of art and sex.
She was naked; he was not.
The goddaughter of Igor Stravinsky and a graduate of Hollywood High, Babitz posed in 1963, at age twenty, playing chess with the French artist Marcel Duchamp.
Eve Babitz was the ultimate factory girl, a pure product of LA.
What emerges isn\'t just a portrait of a writer, but also of Los Angeles: sprawling, melancholic, and glamorous." --Stephanie Danler, author of Sweetbitter Los Angeles in the 1960s and 70s was the pop culture capital of the world--a movie factory, a music factory, a dream factory.
Anolik decodes, ruptures, and ultimately intensifies Eve\'s singular irresistible glitz." --Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker "The Eve Babitz book I\'ve been waiting for. "I practically snorted this book, stayed up all night with it
