i’ve always been interested in reading some eve babitz, especially as she’s widely compared to (and often noted as the antithesis to) joan didion, and i’m so glad i picked this one up because i ended up loving it!

Mairead is the author of the novel See You In the Morning (featherproof books) and Tenderness , a poetry chapbook (Meekling Press). Even the ubiquitously-mentioned photo of her with Famous Male Artist is held up as a symbol of her muse-ish-ness.My immediate hunch was that the Teamsters management stepped in, after [Cesar] Chavez did all the work, and skimmed off the cream. A. It’s freedom from smog and unbroken dreary hateful sameness, it’s freedom to look out the window and think of London and little violets and Paris and cobblestones. Her artist mother, Ed Ruscha told me, was “a real sweet beautiful woman from a little town in Texas. Something we used to say about life in general, feeling sophisticated and amusing in bars, back in the days when we thought how you behaved was the fault of other people. But it’s a window too dark to peer through, and you find yourself saying, “I never knew real jealousy.

To spend eternity looking out over these pretty green hills or in some overcrowded ghetto cemetery next to the expressway in Queens? This is a girl who did not believe in the viability of most relationships: "The real truth is that I've never known any man-woman thing to pan out (it may pan out to them, of course, but couples in middle age who don't speak to each other are not my idea of a good movie.I think fans of Joan Didion would enjoy this book especially by seeing this more microscopic view of LA with a focus on its grandeur. I suppose this is the times, the pace of a nightlife focused around multiple loves and mysteries, and capitalist exchanges, and sexual attraction — these are simply facts — but it made me feel a little gross. Her articles and short stories appeared in Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, and Esquire.