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Eve's Hollywood
Eve's Hollywood | Eve Babitz
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Journalist, party girl, bookworm, artist, muse: by the time shed hit thirty, Eve Babitz had played all of these roles. Immortalized as the nude beauty facing down Duchamp and as one of Ed Ruschas Five 1965 Girlfriends, Babitzs first book showed her to be a razor-sharp writer with tales of her own. Eves Hollywood is an album of vivid snapshots of Southern Californias haute bohemians, of outrageously beautiful high-school ingenues and enviably tattooed Chicanas, of rock stars sleeping it off at the Chateau Marmont. And though Babitzs prose might appear careening, shes 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 windsand every bit as seductive as she is.
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Vansa
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So deeply insightful

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Vansa
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#FirstLineFridays
This is such an incredible book.
I can't tag people on Litsy web, unfortunately!

TheBookHippie One of my all time favorites! 8mo
Vansa @TheBookHippie just reading it, and I agree, I think it's going to be one of my favourites too 8mo
Vansa @TheBookHippie just reading it, and I agree, I think it's going to be one of my favourites too 8mo
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Vansa
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Eve Babitz writes so well

TheBookHippie I love her. Everything she writes is excellent! 8mo
Vansa @TheBookHippie so acutely observed. " The middleman of her own face" is such a perfect phrase 8mo
TheBookHippie @Vansa I do so agree! 8mo
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Vansa
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What an absolutely perfect sentence. I know EXACTLY what she means

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Leftcoastzen
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This made me sad.I‘m a couple days behind on being in touch. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/dec/20/eve-babitz-chronicler-of-1960s-and...

TheBookHippie I love her work so much. This made me sad as well. 2y
quietjenn Me too. I‘m so glad she had a bit of a resurgence over the last few years. 💙 2y
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TheBookHippie
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One of my favorites . 🤍🕯

AmyG Oh no. There are always those who pass away during the holiday season….so sad. 2y
Ruthiella Her books have been on my list forever! I must get to them. 2y
TheBookHippie @Ruthiella I need to own them all I have read them all. I‘d reread every one of them 😂♥️ 2y
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TheBookHippie @AmyG seems so. Sad. 2y
Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I picked up a couple of her books but haven't read them yet. 2y
TheBookHippie @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I enjoy her writing quite a bit. I think you will as well. 2y
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TheBookHippie
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#Book4Book

So. Love. This. Book.

I hope you everyone else will love this too. 😬
I‘m making good progress should be done in time to mail it. 🖤

AmyG Nice! I am very excited to read this. 4y
Leftcoastzen 😀👏👏👏I did too! 4y
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TheBookHippie
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#book4book

I pulled 4 off my TBR CART

Any look good? Otherwise I‘ll pick more 🤣🤷🏽‍♀️

Soubhiville The tagged book sounds good! I haven‘t read any of these though, and I‘d be up for any of them. 4y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I‘ve never heard of any of them! 🤷🏼‍♀️ 4y
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intothehallofbooks I love Elizabeth Berg‘s books! 4y
Leftcoastzen I loved Eve! 4y
AmyG I‘d love to read the tagged book! 4y
UwannaPublishme Love Elizabeth Berg. But the tagged book sounds really good. 4y
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BronwynMahon
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Kicking off a long weekend by starting this book and getting into to the good wine! #longweekendvibes

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Leftcoastzen
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#Booked2020 #winter #setinHollywood Eve is often portrayed as a party girl but she was deeper than that . There is a chapter about writers & books she loves .She‘s good for a unique perspective & a witty turn of phrase. She writes with love about L.A. icons , Watts Towers,Angels Flight , Canter‘s , Barneys Beanery,Olvera Street, things still around that make me miss L.A.like a dull ache .Full of characters.

Cinfhen I hope to read this one this week so I can send it off to @BarbaraBB assuming they don‘t shut the post office 4y
BarbaraBB @Cinfhen I‘m looking forward to it, thanks so much! 💗 4y
andrew61 https://play.acast.com/s/tlsvoices/f5754bc8-0a75-45ca-b955-1ff5174996fe Thought id share this with you as i knew little abt eve babitz until i listened to the TLS podcast ' freedom flowers books and the moon' and a shirt discussion about her. I am going to try and find this book. 4y
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Leftcoastzen
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#MagnificentMarch #MemoirMonday I‘m about half way through this book , which is often categorized as a “semi-fictional memoir “ Eve is a force of nature, she went to Hollywood High .Her insights into L.A. are full of celebrities, wild behavior, Eve navigates it all , with a sense of humor and an edge. Also using for
#Booked2020 #SetInHollywood

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤️📚❤️ 4y
OriginalCyn620 🙌🏼📚❤️ 4y
BarbaraBB Need to #stack this one 💕 4y
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Cinfhen I‘ll share it with you @BarbaraBB after I read it 💖My kiddies bought me a copy when they were in LA 🤩🥰 4y
BarbaraBB @Cinfhen Wow I‘d love that! Thank you so much dear friend ❣️😘 4y
Cinfhen Of course @BarbaraBB it‘s my pleasure 💝 4y
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Cinfhen
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#AyUpAugust when I think of #Star 🌟I think of Hollywood 🤩Below are 3 new titles I picked up this summer❣️❣️❣️The two books by Eve Babitz are #NYRB and gifted to me by my kids , who bought them while out in LA 🌴😎

Cathythoughts Hollywood ✨✨✨✨✨👏🏻 5y
vivastory Can't go wrong with NYRB! 5y
Cinfhen I ain‘t raising no dummies @vivastory 😉They know!! Heads up @Cathythoughts #Hollywood may or may not be a future prompt for #Booked2020 🤫 5y
squirrelbrain You‘ve raised them well! 😁👍 5y
Cinfhen Ha! Thanks @squirrelbrain #ProudMaMa ♥️ 5y
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thatotherlisa
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“Taquitos are much better than heroin, it‘s just that no one knows about them and heroin‘s so celebrated.”

#truth

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thatotherlisa
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“So it turned out that power was the quality of knowing what you liked. An odd thing for power to be.”

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WordWaller
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Alright alright. Onto more positive things and no. more. crying. (This month has been REAL, ya'll, excuse me for not holding back at times on here). This is a stack of all the dollar books I've brought home in the past week or so! #TBR #TBRstack #sale #whysalesaredangerous

saresmoore Um, score! 7y
BarbaraJean Yes, sales are dangerous indeed!! But sooo good! 7y
cathysaid Books. They're good medicine 7y
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sisilia
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More from BookDepository 😬

quirkyreader I see Snoopy in the background. 7y
sisilia @quirkyreader That's my tote bag 😊 Limited edition from Tokyo Station 7y
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patrick_dunlop
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"' But how will you toughen up and mature?' they ask.

'No,' I say. 'Who says you have to mature? I don't want to get old and die. I just want to die.'"

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Verity
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One from my to-read pile for today's #maybookflowers #hollywood. I'm hoping for some insights in to 60s Los Angeles. And maybe some snark. I'll keep you posted.

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