This week: uber L.A. woman Eve Babitz. How do you talk about a woman who knew everyone and did everything there is to do?? We give it a shot--covering her life, her work, and her recent revival on #bookstagram.

Books mentioned: Eve’s Hollywood, Slow Days Fast Company, Sex & Rage, L.A. Woman, I Used to Be Charming, Eve Babitz; Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A, Lili Anolik; Catch-22, Joseph Heller; The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West; Play It as It Lays, Joan Didion; Essays, Michel de Montaigne; Paradise Lost, John Milton; Priestdaddy, Patricia Lockwood; Conversations With Friends, Sally Rooney; How Should a Person Be?, Sheila Heti; Trick Mirror, Jia Tolentino.

Resources: 

• All About Eve--And Then Some (Lili Anolik, Vanity Fair)
• Eve Babitz is Better Than Ever (OLIVIA AYLMER, Vanity Fair)
• Jia Tolentino on Eve (New Yorker)
• The Eve Babtiz Revival (Penelope Green, NYT)
• My Favorite Year: In Los Angeles with Eve Babitz in 1971 (Dan Wakefield, LA Review of Books)
• Eve Babitz’s Vision of Total Freedom (Marie Solis, The Nation)
• L.A. Confidential (Holly Brubach, NYT Style Magazine)
• Germans in L.A. (Alex Ross, New Yorker)

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