Lili Anolik, whose Vanity Fair profile of the reclusive writer, re-started the Eve Babitz revival, discusses her Eve biography, Hollywood Eve (published by <a href="https://bookshop.org/shop/Scribner">Scribner</a>) and, as the subtitle suggests, “The Secret History of LA." For our reading this episode, writer and critic Molly Lambert reads from Eve’s latest collection of unpublished later work, I Used to Be Charming (published by <a href="https://www.nyrb.com/collections/classics">NYRB</a>)Music by Mike Melvoin

Lili Anolik, whose Vanity Fair profile of the reclusive writer, re-started the Eve Babitz revival, discusses her Eve biography, Hollywood Eve (published by Scribner) and, as the subtitle suggests, “The Secret History of LA." For our reading this episode, writer and critic Molly Lambert reads from Eve’s latest collection of unpublished later work, I Used to Be Charming (published by NYRB) Music by Mike Melvoin

Lili Anolik, whose Vanity Fair profile of the reclusive writer, re-started the Eve Babitz revival, discusses her Eve biography, Hollywood Eve (published by <a href="https://bookshop.org/shop/Scribner" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scribner</a>) and, as the subtitle suggests, “The Secret History of LA." For our reading this episode, writer and critic Molly Lambert reads from Eve’s latest collection of unpublished later work, I Used to Be Charming (published by <a href="https://www.nyrb.com/collections/classics" rel="noopener noreferrer">NYRB</a>)Music by Mike Melvoin

Big Table Episode 5: Eve Babitz

The BIG TABLE podcast is about books and conversation, an exploration into art and culture, as told through interviews with authors, conducted and curated by writer, editor, historian and publisher J.C. Gabel and a small cast of contributors, all former colleagues and friends.

This podcast is a co-production between Hat & Beard, Dublab, and Gold-diggers in Los Angeles, and is dedicated to the interviewing style and enduring memory of Studs Terkel, the Chicago oral historian, actor, activist, TV pioneer, and long-time radio host and author.

BIG TABLE is the first digital initiative of Invisible Republic, a nonprofit arts organization, working in coordination with Future Roots, Inc.

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The BIG TABLE podcast is about books and conversation, an exploration into art and culture, as told through interviews with authors, conducted and curated by writer, editor, historian and publisher J.C. Gabel and a small cast of contributors, all former colleagues and friends. This podcast is a co-production between Hat & Beard, Dublab, and Gold-diggers in Los Angeles, and is dedicated to the interviewing style and enduring memory of Studs Terkel, the Chicago oral historian, actor, activist, TV pioneer, and long-time radio host and author. BIG TABLE is the first digital initiative of Invisible Republic, a nonprofit arts organization, working in coordination with Future Roots, Inc.

The BIG TABLE podcast is about books and conversation, an exploration into art and culture, as told through interviews with authors, conducted and curated by writer, editor, historian and publisher J.C. Gabel and a small cast of contributors, all former colleagues and friends.

This podcast is a co-production between Hat &amp; Beard, Dublab, and Gold-diggers in Los Angeles, and is dedicated to the interviewing style and enduring memory of Studs Terkel, the Chicago oral historian, actor, activist, TV pioneer, and long-time radio host and author.

BIG TABLE is the first digital initiative of Invisible Republic, a nonprofit arts organization, working in coordination with Future Roots, Inc.

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