She has been compared favorably with Edie Sedgwick, the protegee of Andy Warhol at The Factory in New York City. babitz is the perfect 70s la party girl, detailing her days spent running around la, bumping into the famous or the almost-famous.

In 2022, the Huntington Library in California announced that it had acquired Babitz's personal archive, which includes drafts, journals, photographs, and letters spanning 1943 to 2011. Her father was a Baroque musicologist with a Fulbright and Ford grant, and friends like Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, and Thomas Mann. And the only thing that makes things even slightly bearable is a friend who knows what you're talking about. and the next you’re at some art thing and I see women look at you when you don’t know it and they’re all wondering how in the hell you did it. It is notable for how openly it blurs the lines between fiction and autobiography; a rhetorical strategy that, too, seems appropriate for a book that concerns itself explicitly with a city possessed and obsessed by artists, musicians, and storytellers.He dared you to insist that there was no dawn, that all there was was darkness, that there was no silver lining, that the heart didn't grow fonder by absence. The sarcasm, silliness, and unapologetic one-liners about men, life, sex, and drugs add to the charm of this book.

Some similarities here with Joan Didion, but Babitz feels more tactile to read and is completely laid back and openly frank about her sex life and affairs. Eve designed album covers for Atlantic Records including Linda Ronstadt and Buffalo Springfield; wrote articles and short stories for places like Rolling Stone and Vogue; and published seven books. I have to be extremely funny and wonderful around him just to get his attention at all and it's a shame to let it all go for one person.Babitz addresses the Los Angeles lifestyle outside in, as if looking on from a distance, though she’s never left home. Babitz was born in Hollywood, California, the daughter of Mae, an artist, and Sol Babitz, a classical violinist on contract with 20th Century Fox. On October 20, a new film adaptation of John Williams’s novel Butcher’s Crossing, published by NYRB Classics in 2007, will be released in select movie theaters across the U. Which is only a darker version fo the Hollywood "everything" in which the more vulnerability and ineptness you project onto the screen, the more fame, money, and love they load you with.