Books written by Eve Babitz

I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz

It was exactly what you'd think Audrey Hepburn would wear, to go with her pearls, her eyes, and her voice. It was the scent of unbelievably good taste, with just an edge of blissful sex. It was happiness. It was not a statement about ...
Eve's Hollywood

“I just can't be Katharine Hepburn,” Tina told me. “Yes, you can,” I said. “You're doing it.” “But it's too hard,” she said. “Yeah, I know,” I said. “It's just impossible,” she went on. We've stopped using the word “rough,” that was ...
Black Swans: Stories

And maybe Audrey Hepburn. “Only mine are better,” she explained. “But men hate pancake makeup,” I'd say, since they did. “Fuck 'em!” she sneered, scornfully, and she was right because, in her case, they made an exception.
El otro Hollywood

replicó ella, justo cuando la amiga de él regresaba a la mesa. —No puedo ser Katharine Hepburn —me dijo Tina. —Claro que sí —dije—. Ya lo eres. —Pero cuesta demasiado.
Eve's Hollywood

Journalist, party girl, bookworm, artist, muse: by the time she’d hit thirty, Eve Babitz had played all of these roles.
El Otro Hollywood

«Me parecía a Brigitte Bardot y era la ahijada de Stravinsky.» Así se definía Eve Babitz, musa del Los Ángeles de los sesenta y setenta que con apenas treinta años publicó estas memorias dignas de una estrella de Hollywood.
Eve's Hollywood

Eve's Hollywood
Two by Two: Tango, Two-Step, and the L.A. Night

Eve brings the flirtatious energy of dancing alive like no other writer. Two by Two is not a book that teaches you how to dance, but it will surely make you want to learn once you've read it.
L.A.WOMAN

Sophie and Lola, like the many other women who move in and out of this electric saga know that while L.A. is constantly changing it is essentially eternal; through their eyes we see the mixture of high culture and low, the promises of youth ...
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A.

One man proved elusive, however, and so Babitz did what she did best, she wrote him a book. Slow Days, Fast Company is a full-fledged and full-bodied evocation of a bygone Southern California that far exceeds its mash-note premise.
Fiorucci, the Book

Om firmaet Fiorucci, Milano
Eve's Hollywood

Eve's Hollywood
Sex & Rage: Advice to Young Ladies Eager for a Good Time

It is the 1970s in LA, and Jacaranda Leven - child of sun and surf - is swept into the dazzling cultural milieu of the beautiful people. Floating on a...
Eve’s Hollywood

Kennen Sie Eve Babitz? Journalistin, Partygirl, Künstlerin, Muse: Bis zu ihrem dreißigsten Lebensjahr hatte Eve Babitz bereits jede dieser Rollen inne. Schon als Kind war sie Teil der kulturellen Bohème Kaliforniens.
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A.

In a quick clap of mistaken thunder the look of Southern California had been transformed miraculously and I have seen nothing like it anywhere else or heard of any such thing. You could pick up mad gladness from ... SLOW DAYS, FAST COMPANY.
I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz

With Eve’s Hollywood Eve Babitz lit up the scene in 1974. The books that followed, among them Slow Days, Fast Company and Sex and Rage, have seduced generations of readers with their unfailing wit and impossible glamour.
Two by Two: Tango, Two-step, and the L.A. Night

With the popularity of swing and social dancing at an all-time high, the author provides a provocative look at the hottest trend to sweep the nation. 10 line drawings.
L.A. Woman

Living out their addictively decadent lives, Sophie and Lola are cult writer Babitz's literary embodiment of the iconic L.A. Woman - more than in part inspired by her own wild and hedonistic youth.
Sex and Rage: A Novel

NATIONAL BESTSELLER "This novel is studded with sharp observations .