Eve Babitz: 5 books

Following the wildly successful reception of Eve Babitz's novel, Sex and Rage, comes the reissue of her gorgeous story collection, Black Swans Eve Babitz's writing speaks to a whole new generation of readers, and is just as totemic a writer to young women today as Francesa Lia Block's Weetzie...

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...

No one burned hotter than Eve Babitz. Possessing skin that radiated “its own kind of moral laws,” spectacular teeth, and a figure that was the stuff of legend, she seduced seemingly everyone who was anyone in Los Angeles for a long stretch of the 1960s and ’70s. One man proved elusive, however,...

TV/film rights to Eve’s canon of work were recently sold to Tristar (Sony) TV, on behalf of Elizabeth Cantilon and Amy Pascal, for a planned TV series The Eve Babitz resurgence remains in high gear with tons of media coverage for the reissue of her classic Eve’s Hollywood and Slow Days, Fast...

Soon to be a TV show on Hulu Eve Babitz is a writer like no other—she “is to prose what Chet Baker is to jazz” (*Vanity Fair)—*and she has influenced a generation of writers and readers with her sophisticated, witty, and delightful work. L.A. Woman is quintessential Babitz, the story...