{"title":"Eve-a-palooza","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"eves-hollywood-by-eve-babitz","title":"Eve's Hollywood by Eve Babitz","description":"\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003eJournalist, 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 \u003cem\u003eFive 1965 Girlfriends\u003c\/em\u003e, Babitz’s first book showed her to be a razor-sharp writer with tales of her own. \u003cem\u003eEve’s Hollywood\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEve Babitz \u003c\/strong\u003e(1943–2021) was the author of several books of fiction, including\u003cem\u003e Sex and Rage: Advice to Young Ladies Eager for a Good Time\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eL.A. Woman\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBlack Swans: Stories\u003c\/em\u003e. Her nonfiction works include \u003cem\u003eFiorucci, the Book\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTwo by Two: Tango\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTwo-Step, and the L.A. Night\u003c\/em\u003e. She has written for a variety of publications including \u003cem\u003eMs.\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eEsquire\u003c\/em\u003e and in the late 1960s designed album covers for the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, and Linda Ronstadt. NYRB Classics publishes \u003cem\u003eEve's Hollywood,\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eSlow\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eDays, Fast Company,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eI Used to Be Charming.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Womb House Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53049907806517,"sku":null,"price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/6247\/9413\/files\/evesholly.jpg?v=1782788612"},{"product_id":"too-l-a-letters-never-sent-by-eve-babitz","title":"Too L.A. - Letters Never Sent by Eve Babitz","description":"\u003cp\u003eEve Babitz was a pure product of Los Angeles. The goddaughter of the avant-garde composer Igor Stravinsky, she made the scene of just about every midcentury California scene there was: from the artists of the Ferus Gallery forging a wholly West Coast art, to the genre-creating rock-and-roll bands of the 1960s and '70s, to the literary-cum-Hollywood crowd orbiting Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne. In between the partying, the drugs, the love affairs, the \"squalid overboogie\" of it all, Babitz made time to chronicle the world as she saw it in works like\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eEve's Hollywood\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSlow Days, Fast Company\u003c\/i\u003e; and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSex and Rage\u003c\/i\u003e. Modest successes in their time, these books have found their audience in the twenty-first century, establishing themselves as the final word in literary cool.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBabitz considered her letters \"the kind of writing I do best,\" calling them \"practically a diary,\" and rarely depositing them into a mailbox. Her missives to friends like Joseph Heller, Annie Leibovitz, Paul Ruscha, and Steve Martin—fresh and frank, dashing and droll—are irresistible, as highly spirited as they are acutely perceptive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese unsent letters constitute an alternate body of Eve Babitz's work, one that might have been lost had not her sister, Mirandi, found them after her death, packed in unremarkable file boxes taped securely decades before. In\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eToo L.A.\u003c\/i\u003e, Babitz's biographer, Lili Anolik, has performed a remarkable feat, not only raising these letters from the tomb but accompanying them with informative and irreverent commentary, guiding the reader through the uproarious lifelong party that was Eve Babitz's real masterpiece.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Womb House Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53049913573685,"sku":null,"price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/6247\/9413\/files\/toola.jpg?v=1782788915"}],"url":"https:\/\/wombhousebooks.com\/collections\/eve-a-palooza.oembed","provider":"Womb House Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}