Eve's Hollywood

Name: Eve's Hollywood
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Eve Babitz
ISBN: 9781501923869

Author: Eve Babitz

Narrator: Mia Barron

Unabridged: 8 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/15/2016

Categories: Fiction, Humorous, Women

Synopsis

Journalist, 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 Five 1965 Girlfriends, Babitz’s first book showed her to be a razor-sharp writer with tales of her own. Eve’s Hollywood 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.

About Eve Babitz

Eve Babitz is the author of several books of fiction, including Eve's Hollywood and Slow Days, Fast Company, both published by NYRB Classics. Her other nonfiction works include Fiorucci, the Book and Two by Two: Tango, Two-Step, and the L.A. Night. She has written for many publications, including Ms. And Esquire, and in the late 1960s designed album covers for the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, and Linda Ronstadt.

Reviews

Goodreads review by emma on April 05, 2024

i'm trying to move into eve babitz's brain. no one is cooler / funnier / more slay than her. slow days, fast company is still her masterpiece, but this was damn good. bottom line: eve!!!!!!......more

Goodreads review by Kathleen on December 11, 2015

My essay about Eve Babitz & this book for the Chicago Tribune: Few things make me shake my head with greater incredulity that when someone says something to the effect that the market rewards those who most deserve it (for their obvious talent, for their skill at competition, for their meeting of a......more

Goodreads review by Barry on March 23, 2018

In Nathanael West's celebrated novel of Hollywood, The Day of the Locust, Eve Babitz sees nothing but an unfair diatribe against her beloved hometown of Los Angeles. Babitz often hears of Hollywood being described as a 'wasteland', a fake town full of fake people where even the greenery is plastic.......more

Goodreads review by daniella ❀ on March 27, 2022

eve babitz was a fucking icon......more

Goodreads review by emma on May 13, 2024

Eve Babitz's Eve's Hollywood makes you feel like you have not lived life enough. For me, that statement is true - there is so much of the world to explore, so much to achieve, and so many people to meet and stories to form. To read this essay collection is to be once again welcomed with open arms in......more